Trip back to Anchorage

 What a time for a snowstorm!!!  wasn't too bad but made the driving slow and treacherous  - finally got to our destination for the night  Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge - I have pictures from our room but none from the lodge entry - look online and you will see more beautiful pictures than I have!!  Timing was bad as the clouds are covering Denali and probably also no northern lites but it's 2 hours from the airport in Anchorage and we have a 2:20 flight out so we thought

we could get some "Alasking kind of atmosphere " just before we go!!!

I think this is supposed to be mountains including Denali 

This is Jesse Holme's supermarket - he lives 45 miles east of here and you can only get there by snow machine - in case you are not a fan, he just won the Iditarod - we stopped for a coke and I asked the lady selling if she knew him and she did and said I could leave him a note if I wanted to so I did= written on a small green sticky note - we will see if he ever gets it!!  we have some history with him as in 2010 when we were racing in Fairbanks we saw him out in like -20 handling dogs in a wind suit and thought he looked pretty cold - so Randy got out a one piece carport suit for him and gave it to him out of the goodness of his  heart, not knowing we would someday be really proud to know him - he still has the carport and remembers us and we were able to hug him both at the start in Anchorage and the re-start in Fairbanks!

Randy enjoying the view from our room

the deck just below us

from the room!!

this room has the most cushiony pillows I have ever seen!!!  they are like marshmallows!!!!