Tropical Insert

So I just realized I never put up pictures from the beach at our resort! Shame shame!
I'll just stick them in now....right smack in the middle of the Alaska pictures!
Here they are!

It was an awesome beach!
Palm trees
Cabanas to lounge in everywhere
Tide Pools
 A pier (Caribbean style of course!)
Nice white sand
Beautiful.

Ariel View

To continue with the Alaska pictures....Ben's uncle has 2 planes so he took us flying!
It was so incredible, you can't go wrong with an ariel view of Alaska!


I got to take 2 trips up......these pictures are from the first one. The first trip was in his smaller plane, so only one passenger (me) fits besides the pilot. We were taken flying over the Knick river area

(Sorry for any window glare---couldn't help it sadly!)

These are the ones where I just couldn't avoid getting the plane in the picture....oh well!!! 

This is a horrible photo...but I couldn't resist putting it on anyway! See the moose??

Ha, and this is Ben giving his cousins crazy four wheeling rides while everyone waited for their turn in the air

Here's the second trip up...this was a different day and at a different place (I'm not sure the name of it). It wasn't  QUITE as scenic, but it was fun because it was the bigger plane. Two passengers could fit besides the pilot, so BOTH Ben and I got to go at the same time :)

This is Emily before her ride up

We watched Emily take off from inside the car

Here's my handsome hubby (although he wasn't my hubby when this was taken )

Here's a silly picture I took of myself 

And here's the best scenery picture I got from this trip up

The end :)

Duck Pond

So I decided tonight that I never properly showed my pictures from Alaska this summer....I only put probably 5 total pictures, which is a shame!! Alaska is such a beautiful place!! I'm going to work on posting more.

Here are a few from a duck pond that is in Ben's grandma's neighborhood in Anchorage :)

gorgeous. this was right by the pond. 

This is Ben's sister Nikki who came with us

The field right by the duck pond

The light and it's patterns on the  water were simply amazing! This image is SOOC (Straight out of camera, no editing) 

This is what it looks like in Alaska in the summer at 10:30 at night...this was just taken from the street into someones side yard on our way back from the duck pond.