2008 PF Flyer Crew

My first year sailing, and I was welcomed onto a boat with an experienced crew who had been sailing together for three years. While this is the last year we'll sail this particular boat, we'll be racing again come spring. I'm the second from the left, getting ready to chase Edward to the bow. We were probably getting ready to take down the jib and raise the spin. We got an honorable mention in the yacht club's newsletter for being the most fashionable crew on the water that day, having worn our snazzy matching polos. (L-R: Edward, me, Amy, Artem, George, Dave, Brian, and Jim)

ALASKA, BABY!!!

These are my friends Randy and Dave. They live in NYC and both have extremely boring jobs working for law firms. However. Dave is a theatre producer. He owns his own theatre called the Lil' Peach, and Randy's not so secret love (aside from theatre and Dave) is archaeology. In fact, I first met Randy on my last trip to Israel. I met Dave at their Halloween party later the same year.

Well, apparently Randy has parents. And they were having their bazillionth wedding anniversary. So when Randy invited me to go along on an Alaskan cruise to help celebrate, I really had to think about it.....for about 3 seconds. For those of you who don't know me that well, pretty much if I haven't been there and it's supposed to be fun, and you invite me, and there's food, lots of food, I'll go. (I say "pretty much" because I know people for whom qualifiers are necessary for their safety and those around them.)

This trip I was determined to not do anything educational or learn anything about history - too close to what I do for work. My sole objective: eat when I want, sleep when I want, and take lots of pictures. It is a vacation, is it not?

Since it's been a couple months since I took this trip (in August), I apologize if some of my facts aren't entirely correct. My memory is only so good after all. Be sure to click the older posts link at the bottom of the page to see all the photos. There's about 50 of them, so consider yourself warned.

One of the few pictures of Dave

Because he was always behind the camera. The shadow was from his jacket which he very handily hung off the top of our table's umbrella to keep the sun out of our eyes. This was about 9pm my first and only night in Anchorage. The next afternoon we had a boat to catch.

Welcome to the Hyatt.

I wonder if Goldie-locks saw something similar after she ate the porridge?

Alaskan grafitti

Got a blank concrete block wall? You need Alaskan themed cartoons!

These, or something similar, were everywhere.

Cook Inlet

Something about a captain, a boat, and an STD? I don't know....

The last stop light in town

View of Anchorage from one end to the other.

Mush, mush

Hey, it's the closest we'll ever come to actually racing dogs across frozen tundra. Definitely not something on my bucket list.

(Iditarod starting line, 4th Ave. Anchorage)

What did I say?

I told him not to call the 8-foot Grizzly an over-stuffed teddy bear.....did he listen?!?!?!