i'll try to get some pictures up at some point from our first month and a half here, but for now, here are some pics from our trip to the Alaska Zoo last Saturday. Check out their story; apparently the real life narrative about how the zoo started is very similar to the episode where Bart wins an elephant..

So there were bears..

And there were some other animals, but we didn't get any good pictures. Kind of a small zoo, actually. But The Lindsay and i have determined that the musk ox is Suhler-est animal ever. You can't really see it well on here, but we'll try to find the postcard that looked exactly like Suhler and post it..

We also had an amusing adventure last Friday night. Some dude at The Lindsay's office invited us to his place outside Wasilla to hang out at Nancy Lake. So we get off early on Friday, head north, and get there around 19:30. We get to the place, and D's son comes out to greet us. Turns out D left for the weekend to go fishing. Um, okay?! So D's son is like, yeah he said i should take you out on the lake. So D's wife and son drive us to the lake, take us out on their boat, and we spend a couple of hours cruising around the lake and doing this crazy riding an inflatable chariot being towed behind the boat at 40 mph thing with these two people we've never met. Highly amusing. Left around 22:30 with the sun still high in the sky. i love Alaska in the summer..

The other day on my lunch hour i encountered a Native dance performance. Apparently the Alaska Native Heritage Center holds daily demonstrations downtown in an attempt to drum up business for the Center. Here are some photos from the dance performance:

And here is a view from the office. Denali was visible one day this week from the window, but unfortunately you can't see it in the picture:

i saw the moon last week for the first time since we've been in Alaska. i think the whole perpetual daylight thing is finally starting to freak me out. Friday night i saw a few stars for the first time since we've been here..