12 Year Anniversary

Also known as the Brawl of the Wild or the Cat-Griz Griz-Cat game, depending on which part of Montana a person is from. We Montanans love it! It's kind of like a family reunion every year where Montanans who don't know one another get together and talk about the people they know in common. Yep, the annual big football game. And it was a mere 12 seasons ago that we ran into each other entering the SLC version of the game. We sat and watched the game together. The rest is history. The next year, we went to the SLC satellite party again, and another betrothal between some other friends also ensued. A few years later, we went to a Detroit satellite party. We got some good news at that one... it's when we learned we'd be heading north, to Alaska!

In our lives, it's a warm fuzzy feeling day. We actually don't focus on the game too much. We just want each side to have fun playing a good game. It was a great game this year, coming down to the wire!

So this year, we unpacked from Hawaii, got a sitter, and celebrated our 12 year anniversary in Anchorage. Yay!

The overall scene. Well, part of it, anyway. Montanans were all over the Peanut Farm. And that place is huge!

We also enjoyed some of Anchorage's new culinary delights... Fire Island Bakery, home of the tastiest $3.50 peanut butter cookie you'll ever eat! (It's worth it. For reals.) And Spenard Roadhouse. Any place serving tots and bacon jelly is going to be good. No anniversary is complete without bacon jelly. That's what they say, anyway.