After an interesting night consisting of very loud neighbors until almost 1am followed by a big cruise ship coming into port around 5a and a 6:30am wake up, we ended up having a fun filled day. The loud neighhbors did quiet down significantly after I asked them nicely to hold it down and pointed out that we have canvas tent beds only a few feet away. They were very gracious about it, thankfully.
We had an 8:30am reservation at the Seavey's Ididarod Dog Sled Wilderness Tour. It was fantastic. We learned about the dogs, the race itself, how the Seavey family builds their sleds, and so much more. The introduction was given by Danny Seavey, who has competed in the Ididarod, as have two of his brothers, and his dad. His brothers and dad have won many times.
All of the 60 dogs at the facility either have or will run the Iditarod. We rode a two mile course with a team of 14 dogs pulling our family in a cart, mushed by our guide, Taryn.
The children were thrilled!
Our lead dogs were Pickles and Barney. Pickles just had a litter of seven puppies about 16 weeks ago.
One of Pickles' pups.
They also have a Siberian Husky, Hugo. He starred in Snow Buddies. Siberian huskies are stronger, heftier and generally "prettier" than the light but fast Alaskan huskies trained for racing.
Then we learned about the sleds.
It was a fun and fact filled 90 minutes. We all thoroughly enjoyed it.
Then is was off to church - Resurrection Bay Baptist Church where we worshipped with the local body of Christ. To quote the Psalmist, "I was glad when they said unto me, 'Let us go into the house of the LORD.'"
Back to the campground for some BBQ pork and potatoes, then some exploring of the town of Seward. Dinner out with my parents, then off to the Sea Life Center. We were there to see the pufflets being fed and the children had a grand time exploring all the unique Arctic and North Pacific sea life.
Tomorrow will be another early day as we explore Kenai Fjords National Park by boat.
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