Then back for a light lunch about 2:00 since we were going to visit Klaus and Laura in Trapper Creek for dinner. Before we left for Trapper Creek, we drove to the end of Main St. where, as we'd heard, the flooding in the fall and then a subsequent ice jam, has forced huge boulders of ice up along the banks of the river, some of them nearly as tall as Brian! We wanted pictures, but it was getting dark, and we may go back today on our way (detour) out of town!
To get to Trapper Creek, which is directly across the river from Talkeetna, one has to drive 15 miles back down the spur road from the "highway" to a Y connection, then up the other side 18 miles! When the river freezes over, they can ski across the river! Klaus has a log home, and we had a wonderful meal of goose (first time eating goose for me, and it was their own goose!) that I wish we'd taken a picture of - it was quite delicious and served with potato dumplings and gravy, homemade cranberry sauce, red cabbage, and carrots. Oh, and we started with homemade eggnog from their own eggs - not at all like store eggnog, very light and fresh.
They have real candles on their tree, in the European tradition, if you look closely at the picture. They had a Swiss friend visiting, who lives in Anchorage now, and both men have a tour guide business with float trips, some as long as 11 days in the Brooks Range. Klaus also has a machine shop and does fabrication and milling work for small airplanes - Brian of course liked seeing the machine shop! Great company and enjoyable evening - we headed home very late for us!
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