Just Us Day

Today Karen and Vern had a church event out at Salmon Lake which is about an hour drive, give or take. With Megan's unpredictability, we decided that a long car drive and a long day in general far from home - without a nap -may not be such a good idea. Instead, we decided to stay back in Nome and have a day to ourselves. After Megan's morning nap we went into town to do some touristy stuff. We had lunch at a place called Airport Pizza and then took some pictures of some of the town sights.

Here is Megan leaving the house with her little backpack. Before we know it, this will be daddy taking her to school. Sad!

I think this qualifies as the world's largest gold pan.
An old church in town. I'm not sure if it's still operating or not.
This is one of the now 3 grocery/all purpose stores in town. This is known as the cheapest but also the dirtiest and probably most likely to have outdated food. Safeway actually owns it and it's interesting that they don't take a little more pride in their product and store conditions.
Yep, this is really what everyone pays. The gas comes in once a year on a barge and they pay the same price all year until the next barge comes in. Who knows what they'll be paying when that arrives.

After our stop in town, we came back home, watched some Olympics and then decided that Megan needed to get out again. We went back to the beach that we fished at a couple of days ago because Megan had so much fun walking around and throwing rocks in the water.

After the beach we drove out into the tundra again. Josh took these pictures off the side of the road.

We almost missed these Musk Ox off the side of the road. This herd was a lot closer to the road than the last we saw so we got a few better pictures. They are so prehistoric looking. Their hair is really long and they have horns. They sort of look like bulls. Megan thought they were cows so she was mooing at them. Later when she lost it in the car, we were trying to divert her attention and tell her to look for more cows. So she moo'd and said "Ease?" Translation: "Please cows, come out?"