On Thursday, July 5 we embarked on our first of 2 road trips with my parents. We started out trip travelling north about 8 hours (it doesn't really take that long but it took us that long) to Fairbanks. This is the first time most of us Musil's have made it to Fairbanks.
We made a few pit stops along the way. The first was at this place. It doesn't really look like much but it is the restaurant we stopped in for lunch. We were there for almost 2 hours. The food was no where good enough for it taking so blasted long.
We also stopped so that we could get a picture of these two guys that were just hanging out on the side of the highway. We saw many other moose along the way too.
We also stopped at a rest stop outside Denali. The kids went looking for a geocache that was placed there for people to find. Natalie and Nichole showed the kids where it was and they wrote their names down in a notebook inside the geocache box. My mom got her picture taken by a road sign that showed how far we are from different cities in Alaska.
After many long hours in the car we finally made it to the hotel. We settled in there for a bit. Then my mom, dad, and I went to North Pole, Alaska to pick up our running packets for the Jingle Bell Run that we signed up for. After we got our packets (which of course came equipped with our very own jingle bells) we headed to dinner at the Cookie Jar. Tyler and Ella couldn't wait to get back to the hotel so that they could go swimming. Nichole was nice enough to accompany them to the pool. After 30 minutes or so my mom and I went down to the pool to sit with the kids.
Nichole thought that maybe she could make this look like Ella was floating. Almost.
This was a cute little bear outside of our hotel. We had to get up bright and early to get ready for the jingle bell run. The hardest part about the run was the air quality. There were fires all around North Pole and Fairbanks. You could see it in the air and breath it in every time you took a breath.
My mom, Ella, and I did the 1 mile walk while everyone else did the 5k. Ella did really well and didn't even stop to walk once.
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| After a fun racing day we headed back to the hotel to have a quick shower. We followed that by a delicious trip to Big Daddy's BBQ and then off to explore Fairbanks. |
We went to Pioneer Park in Fairbanks. It was kind of like a little frontier village with the history of Fairbanks and some artifacts from years and years ago. There was also a train ride that we went on around the park.
It was a very warm day outside. We walked around the park for several hours but we needed to head out to go to our next stop, Denali. We stopped at this really pretty scenic lookout. You will not believe the very large number of moths and bees that were there. We all got out to take a picture and Nate had to drive away so that the moths and bees wouldn't get in the car while we tried to get in. There were a few less where he drove to but we had to all hurry into the car as to not let too many of them in.
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Our next stop 4 hours south Denali National park
to be continued.....
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