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Erickson Reunion

This last weekend we went to Idaho for the Erickson Family Reunion.  You can't have a reunion in Kelly's family without playing a little golf. 

 Grandpa Mel and Grandma Cal Erickson in their cute golf cart.  When they were driving around they had a big, red and white umbrella to keep the sun off of them that added to the their look. 

Our golf team

Lynne and Ken's golf team

Me waiting for the game to begin.

Alaskan Cruise

About 2 weeks ago Kelly and I went on an Alaskan cruise.  It was gorgeous.  We flew up to Seattle, and then on the cruise ship we had ports in Juneau, Skagway, and Victoria. The cruise ship also went through Tracy Arms Fjords that were incredible.  We had a great time, and we would love to go on another cruise sometime in the future.  It was so great seeing good entertainment every night, having food to eat whenever we wanted, never cleaning, and waking up in a different city every morning.  I love being treated like a princess and being pampered all week.  Kelly's goal was to gain 10 lbs. when we were there, but he didn't quite make it.  After our cruise we stayed in Seattle in an interesting hotel that was a little on the sketchy side.  They set us up in their Jacuzzi Suite, which was the strangest part.  The Jacuzzi was in the middle of the room without any curtains or anything.  There wasn't a shower or a bath either.  I thought I would try the jacuzzi out and it didn't even work.  It was basically a huge, unenclosed bathtub in the middle of the room. We decided to stay at a hotel that was next to the airport since it was so much cheaper.  The walls were paper thin, and people were coming in and out ALL night long, so I could hardly sleep.  We did like the employees, the continental breakfast and the shuttle that took us back and forth to the airport.  The accommodations were very clean, but old.  We would take the light rail into the city to see all of the sights.  We went to Pike's Market, the waterfront, and the Aquarium.  We also walked around the city a lot.  We want to go back to Seattle and catch everything that we missed.

The fancy restaurant on the cruise that we ate at every night.

Mendenhall Glacier

Mendenhall Glacier

Buchart Gardens-GORGEOUS!

Killer whale that we saw from the cruise ship

Tracy Arms Fjords

Juneau

Skagway-Dewey Lakes (lower lake)

Train at Skagway

One of the pictures Kelly took from the train in Skaway

In Skagway we saw this little guy and we thought he was adorable.  He was one of the ticket takers

Scheels

In June Kelly started his new job at Scheels.  The store doesn't open until Sept. 29th, so he's been working with the other employees getting the store ready.  Scheels is a sporting goods store that has a lot of cool features.
 

Bryce Canyon

One of Kelly's favorite places to go is Bryce Canyon so we went the beginning of June.  It was gorgeous, just like Kelly told me it would be.  The rock formations were incredible.  We stayed in cabins in the Kodachrome State Park.  It was about 12 miles away from Bryce Canyon.  Kadachrome was a really fun place to visit as well.  The cabins were 12 miles away from the nearest town so we would bbq every night on the grill.  The only thing that I didn't like was one of our hikes when we came across a  rattlesnake. I jumped back about 40 feet and then circled the area to try and avoid it.  Kelly thought it was super cool, so he froze, after it rattled at us, and then stood still to watch it slither away.  He told me later that it was a baby and it could have killed us if it bit us.  We were miles away from other people, so we would have been fairly in trouble.  The other issue we had was that the beds in the cabin were really small so my feet would hang off and Kelly's feet (since he's 6'4") were way off.  It made it a little hard to sleep.   We hiked about 10-15 miles everyday and my body felt like that of an 80 year old woman when we got back home.  When did I get so old?  It was hard to come back and deal with real life again.  

Philly and New York

In March my school sent me to Philadelphia to go to a workshop.  Kelly bought a ticket and came with me, and we had a ton of fun. We saw as much as we could in Philly and then on one of our days we took a bus to New York, and saw as much as we could there.