One of our last evenings before going east . . . and a beautiful one. We had dinner and spent time on Carl and Diane's deck with Carl's children, Ian and Margot. Shrimp and salmon, how could you go wrong with that? It started out as a really nice night, and then the dark clouds began to build. We had thunder! First time that I've heard thunder in Anchorage, as it's unusual to have thunderstorms! It was 71 according to our car thermometer yesterday, which is the warmest that we think we've seen it in Anchorage - we missed most of the summer being east last year, and by the time we were back, it was definitely cooler in August (and rainy!).
Hopefully going to Kakwik after work today for one last time on the boat til August. Went for a hike yesterday that we'd intended to be longer, up in Prospect Heights. We didn't get there til 5 but figured we still had at least 7 hours of daylight! We hiked for about 1/2 hour and it started raining and continued another 15 minutes til we reached the fork for Wolverine Peak. We wanted to know how far it was from that direction as we'd gone that far from another direction just the week before - they were about the same distance. At that point it was raining hard, and we hadn't even brought rain gear, so we turned around and hiked back - oh well, 1 1/2 hours isn't NOTHING, it just isn't MUCH!
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