HOLY STRAWBERRIES!

Alright, so these strawberries came from Costco.....and they were amazingly gigantic and beautiful! Rich red color; nice and plump; PLUS.....a taste to die for!!!
If only strawberries were always like this.

I sure wish the pictures had come out better.....but oh well :) Guess that just means I need LOTS more practice :) DARN ;)

Tropical Insert

So I just realized I never put up pictures from the beach at our resort! Shame shame!

I'll just stick them in now....right smack in the middle of the Alaska pictures!

Here they are!

It was an awesome beach!

Palm trees

Cabanas to lounge in everywhere

Tide Pools

A pier (Caribbean style of course!)

Nice white sand

Beautiful.

Ariel View

To continue with the Alaska pictures....Ben's uncle has 2 planes so he took us flying!
It was so incredible, you can't go wrong with an ariel view of Alaska!


I got to take 2 trips up......these pictures are from the first one. The first trip was in his smaller plane, so only one passenger (me) fits besides the pilot. We were flying over the Knick river area

(Sorry for any window glare---couldn't help it sadly!)

These are the ones where I just couldn't avoid getting the plane in the picture....oh well!!!

This is a horrible photo...but I couldn't resist putting it on anyway! See the moose??

Ha, and this is Ben giving his cousins crazy four wheeling rides while everyone waited for their turn in the air

Here's the second trip up...this was a different day and at a different place (I'm not sure the name of it). It wasn't QUITE as scenic, but it was fun because it was the bigger plane. Two passengers could fit besides the pilot, so BOTH Ben and I got to go at the same time :)

This is Emily before her ride up

We watched Emily take off from inside the car

Here's my handsome hubby (although he wasn't my hubby when this was taken )

Here's a silly picture I took of myself

And here's the best scenery picture I got from this second trip up ( I know..gorgeous but still kind of boring compared to some of the others)

The end :)

Duck Pond

So I decided tonight that I never properly showed my pictures from Alaska this summer....I only put probably 5 total pictures, which is a shame!! Alaska is such a beautiful place!! I'm going to work on posting more.

Here are a few from a duck pond that is in Ben's grandma's neighborhood in Anchorage :)

gorgeous. this was right by the pond. I just love the color in the clouds, it totally makes the picture! In fact, if it weren't for the clouds, it would be a boring picture!

This is Ben's sister Nikki at the pond with us

The field right by the duck pond

The light and it's patterns on the water were simply amazing! This image is SOOC (Straight out of camera, no editing)

This is what it looks like in Alaska in the summer at 10:30 at night...this was just taken from the street into someones side yard on our way back from the duck pond. You can see their lawn in the bottom of the picture.