MELTING - MEEEELLLLTTTTTIIIINNNNGGGG

Back from Alaska. It was AWESOME. Pictures will be up shortly for you to view - I am on stolen wireless still and so I don't think it the signal is strong enough for some serious photo uploads.

The Comcast man did come today, though!! Not only did he show up between 2 and 5 like I was promised, but he came at exactly 2 pm!! That never happens. So I have Cable up and running, the internet I will be installing myself. Eeeep! This should be interesting - I just wanted to save the $40 bucks, we are in a recession you know...

But basically, I wanted to complain for a moment that I went from Alaskan weather of 60 degree weather (with one day that was still only 40 by noon) to Massachusetts heat in the 90s! I don't think I have stopped sweating since I stepped off the plane. Sigh. I honestly feel like I am melting. I knew something like this was going to happen when we were all looking for summer to show up. She did, and she brought some major heat.

A few other points of interest:

• United lost all of my family's luggage so we are 0-4 on the checked bags. They still have not yet located the bags, let alone started the process of sending them back to us. AWESOME. Fortunately, I have a LOT of underwear, so I should be able to survive for the next week or so.
• I bought some book shelves for the apartment, this should help with the unpacking a ton as I will now have a place to put books, dvds and games. Sweet
• I found a super cute couch at the Jordan's Clearance Wearhouse, sadly, I don't have a truck so I couldn't get that. Still couchless. Please let me know if you have a truck/van or know someone that would be willing to come with me to get some furniture! :) I would totally appreciate it. For now I am still on the look out for that ever so important piece of furniture.

Hey from AK

Today is the last full day before I head onto the cruise for my two weeks in Alaska. The trip has been phenomenal! I have learned more fun facts that I can remember. As you know, Alaska is the largest state. It is also the state that is the furthest North, West, AND East. How you may ask? Well, two of the islands cross the latitude line whose name I can't remember that separates East and West. Pretty awesome.

Some more facts about Alaska itself:

It is the same size as 69 Massachusetts and 471 Rhode Islands. You would need 2.3 Texases. This leads me to the big nudge that Alaskans like to give Texans: "You know we could cut Alaska in half and then Texas would be the third largest state". Oh you know you smile too when you read this.

The northern most part of Alaska has 3 straight months of sun and 3 straight months of darkness. Therefore, you need to be careful who you sleep with in the winter time, as a one-night stand can equal a 3 month commitment!

Because there is so much sun light in Alaska, women of the night could not use red lights to signal if they were available or not. So being the resourceful women that they were, they would put pots of red geraniums on their porches and remove them when they had a guest. So no self-respecting native Alaskan woman will have those flowers in their gardens.

That is all for now. I am on borrowed internet so I can't write for much longer. Maybe I can get another post when I am out to sea!