Day #22: A Couple of Days Off

Yesterday was day 1 of 2 days off - we went for a hike, and it was awesome. Eight of us ventured up the "unmaintained hazardous" West Glacier Trail onto the Mendenhall Glacier and into an ice cave we found there. The hike was awesome with great views and great company, and the ice caves were glorious! The ice inside was glowing so blue that it pretty much illuminated the entire cave. We came back and had dinner in the restaurant downstairs in the hotel, where payment turned out to be extremely complicated, and then we watched the "world premiere" of our silent dance party video. David did a great job editing it, check the video out here (I'm in there in small amounts): youtube video ...Anyway after all of that we finally got to bed pretty late after a really nice day off.

Then we had a second day, and bear in mind that today is Alyssa's birthday! So I asked her what she wanted to do. She wanted to go kayaking, so we grabbed our friend James who has a sailboat and a student ID at the University of Alaska and went to UAS to rent 2 sea kayaks for $10 each for half the day. We kayaked about 2 miles out to the next island in Auke Bay and then came back. It was really fun and relaxing, although I'm sure my arms will be slightly sore tomorrow. Alyssa then wanted to have Thai food for dinner, so several of us went out to the only Thai food restaurant in Juneau for a meal - it was great. Now we're talking about going to see Horrible Bosses downtown tonight, and I may or may not go, but I have to work at 630 tomorrow morning! So we'll see how I feel.

P.S. Been using the new GoPro and I LOVE IT!!
P.P.S. Daniel gets here in 28 days; I couldn't be more stoked!
P.P.P.S. Leave me a comment so I can see who reads this thing! :)