Homer July 23

At 5:00 am I woke up and stared out the window as the sun came up. The ocean was so pretty in the morning. We pulled in the Homer port and had to pack up all of our stuff. We got off the boat and got a taxi to take us to a restaurant to get something to eat. The restaurant was called Sourdough Express. {pic sitting in front of Sourdough} This was a hip whole food place that was very proud of their organic potatoes. The food was filling but a little bland. Sorry folks, I like my coke with caffeine too. We had 2 hours to kill before we could pick up the rental car, so it made a good place to wake up. The car rental place was about a half a mile from the restaurant. We hiked over to pick up the car. Once in the car we looked around town and the girl fall to sleep. We figured that we would just head out to Seward and let the girls sleep.

It was 150 miles to Seward and this road was really cool. It twisted it's way through the mountains. The fishing season is on, so every stream was packed with fisherman. About halfway to Seward, we came up on a stream and saw a group of fisherman on one side of a stream. Then we noticed that there was a grizzly on the other side of the stream. Of course, we stopped to see the bear. We all decided that the bear was the one everyone should be watching. The weather was cloudy and rainy all day. We stopped at Exit Glacier before we got to Seward. {pic Glacier shot of the family} The hike was about .5 miles and was greatly needed after the drive. The girls were very interested in the Glacier and we walked down from the face to the glacier stream. {pic Glacier shot of the family}

The rain was starting to soak in so we decided head to the hotel in Seward. After checking into the hotel we ran out to find some thing to eat. We found a Pizza and Gyro place called Leonardo’s. The girls wanted to go swimming in the hotel pool. I wanted to relax in the room for a few minutes so I let them go ahead. Once I finished watching a little TV I found my trunks and headed down. Rebecca was sitting poolside talking to an older gentleman named Gary. He was a rancher from North West Florida. His family also ran a construction company. He was very interested in our time in Kodiak working at the mission. He had been coming up to Alaska for 30 years and had never been to Kodiak. He said he said his familly's company might be interested in doing some work for the mission. I gave him my contact information. We called it a night and slept hard.