Bears

This past week we attended the International Sportsman's Show at the South Towne Expo Center. We had a good time seeing the booths and everything. Unfortunately Alaska trips are not discounted like we thought they would be. But it is fun to see everything. The Yellowstone Bear World has a booth with live bear cubs and they let you hold one and take pictures; so we did. Angela didn't quite know what to do with the cubs and wouldn't touch them. We even saw some fabulous mounts of bears and she wouldn't touch those either. She would wave and say "hi" to them as we would pass. She recognized the moose right off and would say "hi moose"; and make bear sounds as we would pass them.

with bear cub


in front of bear mount

Tubing

Last weekend we had a great time at Soldier Hollow tubing. This isn't your normal tubing in the mountains where you have to hike up a hill then slide down just to hike it again. This one is hi-tech. The inter-tube it hooked to a tow rope that pulls it up the hill while you just hang out in it, then you slide down the hill and do it all over again. Pretty fun. Angela likes the snow but didn't know quite what to do about the big hill. We started her out on the little hill then we moved up to the big one. It is quite fast, with no control over what or where you go. Angela's snow suit is like the kid in "A Christmas Story." when she falls -she can't get up - it is hilarious.

At top of big hill

at bottom of little hill

end of day

end of day - playing