Sunday, September 11, 2016

Alaska 2016

Miles had the opportunity to join some friends on an Alaskan fishing trip in August.  The trip sounded like plenty of hard work, but he had a great time.  My favorite part was the 100+ lbs of seafood that he brought back for us!

On a float plane from Ketchikan to Prince of Wales island.


We have eaten some of this octopus, and it is amazing!  Bailey asked for more of it for her upcoming birthday supper.

Halibut!

Salmon!




Miles and Matt went diving for sea cucumbers.



The accommodations.

Matt took Shifty along, of course.

Beautiful!

It is hard to see, but a black bear is in this picture.






Miles and Matt went for fuel and ended up getting to carve on a totem pole.  Very cool!
 


Miles will definitely have to check out the finished product on his next trip to AK.

Packing up the seafood for the trip home.

One last look!




Monday, August 15, 2016

Soccer Camp and The Coaches


Bailey looks forward to soccer camp each year, and we have hosted coaches at our house for the past three years.  This year we ended up with coaches at our house for two weeks because there wasn't a host family for them available in Glendive.  We had a wonderful time with Carl, Ashleigh, and Sam.  We were very sad to seem them go. Bailey enjoyed camp as well, and I think she is ready for the fall season.







Carl and Ashleigh stayed with us the first week.


















 

Bailey's team didn't win the World Cup this year but that's ok.


We took Ashleigh, Carl, and Daniel (the Brazilian coach) paddle boarding.






Carl ran a 5K while he was here.  I think he was a bit nervous at the start.

And they're off!

We watched the race with Ashleigh.

He did great!

Hanging out with the girls.

We had to say good-bye to Ashleigh first as she headed to Washington for another camp.


We took Carl to the Range Riders Museum.



We met up with Travis and Jen at the Miles City Maltfest.



This is the first time we said good-bye to Carl because he was headed to another camp in Glendive.  Then we heard he and Sam didn't have a place to stay so we happily invited them back to stay with us.

We went paddle boarding again.  Josie wanted to ride with "Sammy."

Here is Carl heading out.




Sam took a little snooze in the sun.

It was Carl's turn to take Josie out. 



We went out to supper on Sam and Carl's last night in town.

We said good-bye and sent them off to catch a flight in Bozeman. 

We are so glad to have met these great guys.  We look forward to keeping in touch with them and Ashleigh.