Travel Day
Saturday, 10 February 2007

We got to the airport about two hours early so we had a chef salad and a diet coke. I was still hungry. Here is a photo me after the salad:

"I wanna burger," says Patrick.
"I'd rather not... maybe a little more salad," says Casey
"Harumph!"
"I love you"
"Hmph, I love you too." :)

We didn't have another salad, but we had a good time watching air traffic in Fairbanks. Plus we moved from gate 3 to gate 4. AKA, we didn't move from our seats at all!

On our flight from Fairbanks to Anchorage we got a spectacular veiw of the Great One. Say you see some incredible mountain range. Well, take a mountain and put it on top of that mountain range, only then might you have an idea of the awe that Denali inspires. 20,300 ft tall with a back drop of Mount Foracker (about 19K ft tall). Denali is the largest mountain above sea level from base to top, and is part of the Alaska range. It is surrounded by a national park the size of Massachusettes and has been roamed by dinosaurs. The mountain is primarily composed of granite. Neat, eh?