July

Our friends Meghan and Boose came back to the emerald isle for the first of their two blissful weddings. It was a lovely occasion. Here's the lovely bride.



We didn't get many other pictures. As previously noted, we are not the best wedding photographers. Hopefully they'll put some pictures of both their weddings on their blog soon! Congratulations Boose and Meghan! Here's wishing you a life of marital bliss! And hoping that you'll put down roots in Alaska. Alaska is a better place with you in it! Now start making babies!

The Gilders were visiting the same weekend, so they were the official wedding crashers. They were great wedding crashers because they made and brought tasty food. In addition to the wedding, we enjoyed the July 4th parade.

I think Gilds and Jo-Jo got a taste of parenthood. Hopefully a good one.

We also got some Pasagshak beach time in. We hit the waves. Got some Vitamin D. Loved it.

Gilds and Joanna actually met here on Kodiak island, so it was kind of an anniversary trip for them. Unfortunately we weren't able to make it out to the cannery where they met. We will just have to make it happen the next time they come up.

Happy Kodiakaversary! Thanks for coming to visit, and thanks for sharing your culinary prowess! We can't sum it up any better than the Gilds, so to quote his facebook entry:

"Kodiak Mission complete: 4.5 lbs. bacon, 4 half gallons of ice cream, 2 days of surfing, 8 episodes of True Blood, Point Break and a little of The Fast and the Furious, and a decent amount of porch sittin' in the Land of the Midnight Sun--what more could anyone ask for?"

To put the bacon consumption in context, I should also note that the visit was only from July 3-6.

Our next visitor was Damir, our friend from our SLC days.



He lives in the Big Apple now. He's teaching economics and also working on a PhD in economics. Incidentally, because he is a computer genious, we have him to thank for our renewed blogging efforts. He managed to fix both of our severely malfunctioning computers. Thanks for the visit, Damir! Great to see you again!

Pauline and Andy joined us for some adventures, and also graciously took Damir on some adventures, like flying and climbing Barometer mountain. Things that are hard to do with toddlers.

We went on a kayak mission in Anton Larsen Bay. Spectacular! And only one extreme rough water crossing. (Extreme by our standards, anyway.)



Sunbathing on a particularly warm rock. Seriously. It was great.

Our flotilla.







Pasagshak Beach party.














Pauline and the buddies at the touch tank.




Stokoboko



Harassing the cows.





Spruce Cape walk.