Animal Day Alaska Pics

I'll start by saying we have an awesome creator God! The beauty we have experienced on this trip has been incredible. Today was animal day. We saw them all, moose, bear, elk, eagle, bison, and mountain sheep and multiples of all of them too. Often we drove right up beside them and they weren't even spooked. What a sight. Tonight we are in Fort. Nelson B.C. and we have one more full day of driving ahead of us. Then finally we will be home.
Enjoy the pictures...

Travel Day

We are on the road again and headed back south. We packed the van early and were driving by 5:15 am. We were spoiled in Alaska with all the good weather, but today we drove through lots of snow again...grr. Today was officially moose day. We saw about 12 moose...or meeses..as we have referred to them. It was quite amazing! We arrived tonight in Whitehorse, Yukon after driving 13 hours. Then tomorrow we will be up early again and on the road headed for Fort Nelson, B.C.

Last night in Fairbanks one of the families had us over for a BBQ. It was a fun night to gather with all the pastors and just enjoy our final night together. I will dearly miss the friendships we made during this trip. It felt like we instantly knew these people...I guess that's what being the family of God represents. They were so caring and encouraging to us.

It will be good to finally get home! (I miss you David)

Alaska-Day 6, 7, 8.

The days are continuing to be filled with much activity.
I, Sonya think I will either sleep for 3 days in the van while we travel home or sleep all weekend once we do get home. Either way it will involve a good sleep.(Seems my body hasn't fully accepted the 2 hr time change either)

On Sat. May 30th we did some fun sightseeing...saw the pipeline and the muskox
Yesterday, church was fun for me. Their attendance was down a bit because a large group of men were away on a retreat.The whole service...worship, prayer and sermon were quite enjoyable.

Today I get to share a bit at the Christian school in their chapel service and then we are driving to a near by camp to help with some clean up stuff there too.

Hope to post some pics again soon.

Day 5 Part 2

Well we've made it through another full day.

Thismorning (Thurs) had started with work at the local foodbank. What an incredible facility they have and the staff and volunteers there were awesome. Apparently one business man built the whole foodbank, women's shelter, and street mission facilty just to give back to God what he had been blessed with. WOW!! We also ate lunch there with the staff. Then the afternoon was back at the church and school doing outside projects. Cleaning the yard, raking leaves, scraping paint. It was another beautiful day. In the evening we were invited to a home for a fabulous chicken BBQ. Then most of the team went out for Ice Cream . I however, was kidnapped by the Pastor's wife who drove me on a little tour of the city and then back to the church.I still arrived back before the others.

Fairbanks, Alaska has been experiencing record breaking temperatures this week. Who would have ever thought? 80 degrees F and at 8pm it was still 75 degrees F. No one on the team thought it would be this hot. I'm thankful there is no humidity here, it is more like the dry desert.

The people here have been wonderfully hospitable, taking real good care of us. It is a very warm and friendly group of people

Alaska- Day 5 Thurs

Where has the month of April gone?

I'm awake early thismorning before everyone on the team. It seems my body is somewhat still on Alberta time. There is a 2 hr difference here. Maybe by the end of the week I'll sleep in...based on exhaustion.

It was evident that everyone was quite tired last night but still some of the team didn't get to bed until midnight. So hopefully the lack of sleep will not manifest itself into the uglies as the week goes on.

Alaskans are very laid back, go with the flow kindof folks. Nothing seems to phase them much so it seems that we are going to have to go with the flow for our week of activities. Yesterday, plans changed four times in one day, which was not the easiest on our fearless leader who was trying to keep things in order.

Well...hopefully I'll have some more fun updates at the end of the day.

Day 4...More Pics

Alaska Day 4

OK finally have wireless internet connection. So, enjoy the pictures.

Today was a work day around the Christian school which is right next door to the church where we are staying. It was a full and busy day. The weather was HOT...I mean sunburn, sweating hot....absolutely wonderful.