Sunday was a pretty busy day-I really am trying to cram every minute full of Alaska. I joined my friend, Kathy, for a trip to the Alaska Botanical Garden. This weekend was their Fair and the place was hopping. We had a great day and my camera got a work out on the plants-check out the picture of the Blue Himalayan Poppy, I think it turned out beautifully.
After the Fair we went back to Kathy's. She has a beautiful garden! Somehow it did not get in the pictures but I will be posting it soon. I want you to see what can be done in the yard up here! Wow, she has huge bleeding heart, the blue poppies, roses, iris-and rocks to die for! I know it is a lot of work but WOW!
I am sure I overstayed my welcome but Kathy was a wonderful host. While I was there Lea Ann called (she was a traveler also who has taken a permanent job here) to see if I wanted to go to Girdwood and eat at the Double Muskie. .....and, surprise, surprise she lives across the street and two houses down from Kathy.
So about 6:30 we headed down Turnagin Arm (I've previously posted tons of pictures of that beautiful drive) to Girdwood and the famed Double Musky Inn (check out their cookbook). The food lived up to it's reputation-I had salmon with an orange glaze and mango salsa and LeaAnn had a game hen marinated in Tabasco. We ended with strawberry and blueberry cream pies that were very wonderful!
After dinner we drove into Girdwood and looked at the famous bakery-we were too full to do any more than look at the building. I have made two trips past Girdwood (I didn't realize there was a town further up the mountain that I was missing) and both times stopped at what I thought was the famous bakery. I was very disappointed-now I know why, that wasn't the famous bakery!
We ended the evening at the very beautiful and very exclusive Alyaska Resort with a trip up the tram to the top of the mountain. There is a restaurant up there called Seven Glaciers and the view is wonderful but the prices will knock your glasses off! Since it was almost 9:30 the young lady at the tram ticket counter just gave us a pair of tickets for dinner and the tram-we promised her we were just going to ride up and look around so we wouldn't use the dinner tickets. The tram ride was beautiful and the view from the top was beautiful but Alaska is incredibly majestic that I must be getting immune to it-we agreed it probably wasn't worth the price of the tickets.
We drove back to Anchorage, seeing two moose on the side of the rode en route, where LeaAnn topped my day off by giving me fresh spinach from her deck garden! A very nice day indeed!