Seeing the sights!!!

 
ivory carving at the Anchorage museum - so very delicate

selfie in the dark room at the museum that was simulating what it would be like to be in a earthquake 

the lobby of the hotel where all of the Iditarod registering takes place  - we registered

as volunteers and got out shirts and badges - now we are legal!!!  I even brought out shirts from when we volunteered in 1998!!

a view of the restaurant we had lunch at today - Acrtic Express and it was - faster than McDonalds!!!  I had a blackened salmon sandwich and it was delicious!!  the interesting thing was that they had framed photos of people that had come to live here and what they did!!  all over the restaurant on every wall

Arctic Express  see the photos even on the ceiling!

they had something that when I saw it I had to haveL  onion strings - like the leftovers from making onion rings so smaller and with less batter on them!!!!  even bette that I imagined!!!

one of the oldest fur stores in town - notice the mammoth tusk..........????

tusk info

furs

and more furs!!!

museum display - half the moose is on one side of the wall and the other side is the other half!

beautiful paintings throughout!!!

entrance to the fur store

parka made from the intestines of many different animals and fish

beautiful!!!!

these mitts have teeth sewn on them for decoration 

I couldn't believe it - they made goggles for the sun out of wood!!

Alaskans have been using these for forever - these are examples of really old ones

biggest painting I can remember seeing!!

they captured the beauty of the aurora borealis!!

amazing!!!  the decorative "saddle" was for dogs of the wealthy or kings - you can see the dog harness in leather behind it

musk ox in the hotel lobby