SLED DOGS! What would a trip to Alaska be without stopping in to see the Seavey's sled dogs. Mitch Seavey was the 2004 Iditarod champion (and a few other top ten finishes since then) and they have some (maybe 100) of their dogs in Seward for the summer. Since Kendall is crazy about dogs, and Alice had seen them before and went nuts over them, we decided to at least take them there to do the kennel tour and see the dogs.
When we got there Aunt Mere decided she was brave enough to take on the task of taking all three munchkins on the sled dog ride by herself. She gets our "Aunt of the Year" award hands down!
This place becomes a zoo when people come to see them
Rows and rows of dogs and kennels
Meeting one of the sled dogs
Love at first sight?
"Yook Mom! A sled doggie!"
See the fight breaking out on the left side of this picture? This is what caused me to compare sled dogs waiting for a run to a classroom of unsupervised students! Chaos broke out! There was pandemonium!
Talking to the puppies after the ride
Getting to hold the puppies!
These photos still crack me up. Riley pretending to be the musher and Kendall trying to pull the sled!
Trying to pull it a different way
Still no luck, but she tried hard!
We had a great time seeing the sled dogs. If you get a chance to go see these dogs and learn about them, their training, breeding, etc., I highly recommend it.
There's a phrase we use here in Utah to describe all of the connections we make with others. We often call it "Small Lake City" instead of Salt Lake City. This happened to me not once, but TWICE during our trip to Alaska. I found out a good friend of ours' family use to sponsor the Seavey's sled dog team! How cool is that? The second time was when Mere and I met for tea after my daily morning run, we went to this cool little coffee shop (yes, we went to their competition so Mere didn't feel the need to step in and work while we were catching up!). Do you remember that cute little church I posted earlier? The red one? Well there are tons of cute little churches like that all over town and this coffee shop is located in an old church. It's so adorable (but honestly, Matt and Mere's is at a great location and I like the lay out of theirs much better as well as their extensive drink selection - yes, I'm plugging The Sea Bean so if you visit Seward, look them up!) Anyhow, back to Small Lake City, so there is this guy standing in line in front of us with a Snowbird shirt on. Snowbird is that place Kevin and I skied on the 4th and where Riley is in ski school. So I ask the guy if he's skied Snowbird and of course he replies, "Yes, I actually live in Salt Lake City!" We got to talking and his wife teaches ski school there and he works at The Canyons Resort.
As I mentioned I went for morning runs almost daily. I skipped out on the morning that I realized I lost my license and the morning we went kayaking. After running at 4500 above sea level and then to run AT sea level...WOW! I felt like a super athlete! I could go so much further than I can here in Utah. All those extra red blood cells I guess. I didn't realize how much I would notice it. One morning I decided to run along the bay out this gravel road towards Millers Landing where we were going to take our kayaking trip from. This was my view along the way:
This view just made me want to keep running along there forever - then all gravel that was getting spit up in my eyes and mouth as the many vehicles passed me on their way out to Miller's Landing eventually made me turn around and come back. But the view was breath taking that morning!
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