We shut the shades last night and slept for quite a long time - a full eight hours! The hotel (Homewood Suites Anchorage) had a great fruit bar, and Dave brought up heaps of berries and tea, and we started to feel better after a long day of flights yesterday.
First up was a hearty Alaskan breakfast at Gwennie's, where we found tasty crab benedicts and reindeer sausage.
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| Gwennie's Old Alaska Restaurant |
We stopped by the Alaska Native Heritage Center for the exhibits and a craft fair, then up to the Musk Ox Farm for a tour (!!!).
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| Glorious mama musk ox with lots of qiviut hanging off her |
Most of the oxen had been brushed after the winter; they have two coats and the beautiful (expensive!) yarn only comes from the winter coat: qiviut. The four mamas had been reluctant to run through the barn yet, so they were still pretty shaggy with their adorable little babies.
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| A mama musk ox with a 7-week-old baby (!!) |
Each year they name the babies with a theme; last year it was egg dishes, so there was Quiche and Benedict. I don't remember the babies from this year.
Next we visited Bleeding Heart Brewery, which is in the same town (Palmer) as the Musk Ox Farm, then up to Denali Brewing for a very tasty pizza, salad, and beer flight. I think this was my favorite brewery of the entire trip.
We were heading north to stay near Denali National Park for a tour the next day. We stopped for a hike on the Oxbow Trail, which boasted some stunning views of a river:
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| A lovely hike |
We stayed at Denali Cabins, which were super cute and close to the park. We had initially booked a hotel in Talkeetna, but the company was able to transfer us up to their other property free of charge when we actually secured a spot on a bus tour. Gotta love good customer service!
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