We set out down the Seward Highway to Girdwood today for lunch. This is the road following the mountain. It is pretty much this beautiful the whole way. Kind of like driving in Northern New Mexico's mountain passes with the ocean on your other side. After about 25 minutes, we arrived in Girdwood, a sleepy little, hippy town at the base of the Alyeska ski resort.
This is where we had lunch. Can they grow flowers here or what? Everywhere we go the hanging baskets and herb gardens are amazing. Anyway, we went in for some fabulous pizza for lunch, New York and Chicago style. It was great, but the day got even better when we discovered.......Is it a moose? Is it a bear? Is it a giant halibut?????
Nooooooooooooooo.....It's ESPN and it's time for the NBA draft. How could we have been so fortunate? Great lunch and we get to see where Blake goes (as if we didn't already know).
With part of the first round complete, we moved on to check out the only store in town:
Girdwood Book and News. A charming used bookstore/coffee shop.
Ok, I know, this is a really lousy picture with the rear view mirror and cracked windshield but I had to show you what the view was like coming out of Girdwood to the main highway. I can only get so many picture stops per trip and this wasn't one of them.
We stopped at a roadside pull out called Beluga Point. We had stopped here with Cliff and Becky and it was so windy we couldn't get out. Today it was perfect. This is the view from the roadside.
Never content with a roadside view, Tucker had plans for us to climb on the rocks below.
I'm not the only one taking pics!
Tucker really wanted to climb this (yes this photo is right side up). But calmer heads prevailed and he and his dad took off.
And climbed this one instead.
I think the wind blows really hard here a lot!
I loved the way the light shimmered on the water here. It's really cool behind the grass.
There's beauty everywhere. Even in the rocks!
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