Football

A few weeks ago we came across some tickets to the Bears last pre-season game. Neither of us had been to Soldier Field and we couldn't resist the opportunity.

It was a gorgeous evening for football. This is a view of downtown from the stadium.

Our seats were ridiculously high!

It was an awesome game, but the jury is still out on whether or not this is the year to become a Bears fan.....

WA to IL

The last of our travel photos!....for now....

We spent a few days in Waterville and Dad drove up to say hi! Josh got him hooked on a new toy...

On our way through MT we stopped off in Billings to visit the Duttons. Unfortunately time was short and we only got to see a few of them...but we'll be back.

Wyoming..I think they have the coolest state sign.

In S. Dakota we detoured to the Badlands. It was freezing and pouring down rain...definately not what we expected. However, the landscape is very impressive.

We made it home just in time to attend the Jensen wedding in Milwaukee...and what a beautiful wedding it was.

Southbound on the AK Highway

Still trying to get caught up on all our travel pictures.....

our last ferry ride from Juneau to Skagway

We arrived in Skagway around midnight and parked the trailer at Neitzers.

We spent the next day touring Skagway and waiting for mom's passport. It had arrived in Juneau that morning, and the owner of our campground put it on a float plane up to Skagway for us. It did arrive safely and made our boarder crossings much more enjoyable than they could have been!

leaving AK.... (even though the sign says Welcome to Alaska)

It was raining in the Carcross Desert....thought that wasn't supposed to happen...

...our breakdown.

Around 10 o'clock at night we realized we had broken a leafspring on the trailer and blew our rear tire. We were able to nurse it along for a couple miles until we found a spot to pull off for the night.

Beth and Jason did an awesome job jacking the trailer up and stabilizing it so we could sleep safely.

The next morning we drove to a roadhouse and found a self declared "mechanic" who came out to help Jason. Mom and I picked wild strawberries while the boys worked.

A day later we were finally back on the road. This is Folded Mountain

and we saw more cariboo

There were quite a few large wildfires burning in the yukon, so they wouldn't allow any roadside stopping. These signs were all along the road.

We stopped in Watson Lake and mom found a sign for the town where dad is working.

...and the Yukon sign. Jason wasn't too fond of our idea to do the can-can.

Last days in Juneau

I have finally gotten our last Juneau photos organized and thought I would share a few. As you know, Beth and Mom came up to visit and drive back down the Alaskan highway with us. We loved having them along!

We bought live crab from a shop down by the docks, and Beth and I took it upon ourselves to kill and clean them....interesting...

It was a delicious dinner!

We spent a day touring downtown... admiring the huge cruise ships in port.

We ran into some friends from MT who were in town on a cruise and gave them a little driving/hiking tour.

We also went down to the harbor to check out the fishing boats.

On our last morning in town we met Corrine for breakfast at an adorable bakery

...and then did a little hiking

One of Beth's awesome fireweed pictures....

The salmon runs are high in the rivers so it is a great time to see Bears. Over a 30 minute span we saw about 6 Brown and Black bears fishing... a little close for my comfort.