Griff and Ben

Griff and Ben came a few weeks ago. Griff and I were roommates freshman year at BYU. We quickly became fast friends and lived together until I went on my mission and she got married. They live in Boston now and don't seem to want to trade Ben's Harvard education for UAA. Even though we don't see each other very often we had a blasty.

We went to Hatcher's Pass to climb upwards.


Then we forced them into slave labor and got a ton of fireweed blossoms for jelly.


We went to the hand tram in Girdwood where Paul and I had one of our first dates.

This is them, way out in the middle. (They're kissing. Tee hee.)

This is the raging river the tram goes over.

This is what it looks like if you look down.

More Girdwood pictures.


Ben playing in the river near the Crow Pass trailhead.

We went fishing.


We made jelly out of the fireweed blossoms.


We went fishing again.

This is me being helpful.

This is Griff being helpful...or Willow.

Exit Glacier near Seward.

Making buttons with my birthday present button maker.

We made supper. A lot. We ate a ton of delicious food. Griff spoiled us with several batches of cookies.

We went to Eklutna lake.

Which is where we kayaked in some terrific winds.

Mostly though, we played Catan, every single night. Paul's a little addicted. (Okay, okay...I may have a slight problem as well.)

And then we dropped them off at the airport with our trip to Boston in the planning stages. Can't wait to see them again.