DENALI AND MAKING FRIENDS

I love it here...more than any other place so far.  There is a different feel in this lodge.  This is more like what I grew up with...river, rocks, trees, mountains...I love it.  Our room was so appropriate with all the right type of decor and the view out the window was unbelievable.  We were right on top of a rushing river and tops of big trees.  We left the window open all night so we could hear the rushing river.

We got here right at lunch.  Another couple from Colorado hooked up with us and we headed across the highway to the quaintest little row of log shops and restaurants.  We got ourselves some sandwiches at subway for lunch then went back over to the lodge and snagged a table in the coffee shop.  Another couple from Texas joined us and we spent a couple of hours in fun discussion.  I must admit that it was kind of nice to talk with others for a while...reluctantly I admit this.  One of the men, Clark from Colorado, spent the last many years of his working life as an electrical engineer in a nuclear weapons plant.  So how many times in your life do you get a chance to learn about that?  Sooooo interesting and he was such a sweetheart.  His wife is a little spitfire with very few filters...which of course I like!

We went to a dinner show with them last night.  Unfortunately I was pulled up on the stage to participate...in front of hundreds of people.  Jeez...why me?  We go to a lot of shows and normally we totally avoid sitting up front...just to avoid this very thing.  But that little spitfire was completely determined to have front row seats...and she got them for us!  So after the show I totally blamed her and gave her hell!  Now, due to the fact that hundreds of people saw the show, everywhere I go I am being called Fanny...the name of my character.  Sigh.  Nothing like playing the part of the funny fat lady!

We could have gotten up at five this morning and joined all the others on a six oclock Denali tour...but..we didn't.  We will be driving back through here in a few days so we will explore it then.  Now I am blogging in the lobby and I am starving so I am signing off and am going to go get breakfast.  TTYL (I am not even going to try to post pics here...they are on face book)