Anna's Awesome Adventures!!!: Alaska Trip -- Day #4

Today we woke up around 6:30, got ready and had breakfast (some yogurt parfait, half a cinnamon roll, pineapple, cranberry juice), and headed to the Alaska Native Heritage Center to spend the morning there. We went there four years ago, but there's always more to see and pick up on the second time around. It is a non-profit educational and cultural center celebrating 15 years of preserving the history of the native people of Alaska. There is a walking path that leads past six replica native dwellings of the Athabascan, Inupiaq/St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Yup'ik/Cup'ik, Aleut, Alutiiq, and Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian people; indoor exhibits; stage with ongoing demonstrations; theater with various shows; and much more. We walked around the "village", watched impressive native games and song/dance demonstrations, caught a show in the theater about the native winter games, and enjoyed a beautiful day full of sunshine. Then we went to a nearby park to eat lunch (tuna wraps, a banana, carrots, honey-oat bars, water), followed by a drive down to Alyeska Ski Resort. We also visited there four years ago, but it was a lot warmer and way less snow-covered this time. I hiked around for quite awhile at the top of the tram, dreaming about the day my whole family can come ski here and see this beautiful state that I love so much. We purchased "ride-and-dine" tickets, so we got our suppers to go (Italian sandwich, fries, a pickle, "mystery bar", water) at the deli at the top of the mountain, then headed back to Anchorage around 5:00 p.m. It is always wonderful to see more of God's beautiful creation, especially the mountains that I adore. I could never get tired of seeing them!