Since we decided not to go back East for Christmas this year, we thought we'd do something different - a little cabin in the woods for Christmas is one of Brian's long-held wishes. We started out for Talkeetna yesterday, waiting for the remains of a snowstorm to clear. We celebrated Brian's birthday the night before (Thursday the 22nd) at the Anchorage Museum's "Muse" Cafe, with friends Diane and Carl. Some of you may know Carl Roberts from the Utica area - when we came up here, Brian hadn't been in touch with Carl for 23 years - accident of providence that he had a friend here when he arrived a year ago! The roads were pretty good on the way up, and we had a short ski after checking in just before it got dark. Our cabin is very "cozy" (read small!), but it proved to be very comfortable for a dinner with some of our last shrimp from Prince William Sound last spring-summer and a shrimp bisque that I made before we came up accompanied by a very nice Sauvignon Blanc. Then we read and watched a John Oliver stand up comedy show via computer before falling asleep - I said it was SMALL, I didn't say we were roughing it!
We finished off our dinner with the most beautiful Christmas cookies made by Diane - I can't believe I didn't take a picture of them first, but we started in on them on our way up here.
They've groomed skating trails since we were here last March in the state park and use it for races, evidently. The snow was soft still yesterday, but it was absolutely gorgeous with big soft hunks of snow held in all of the trees.
This morning it was oatmeal with pears and dried blueberries - we're going to fix an entire Christmas dinner in this tiny, inconvenient kitchen so we'll see how that goes! Best wishes for the holiday to all of the friends and family we're missing!
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