Hi All, Today we had our first 'adventure'. Not in the rugged backwoods sense, though. We tried out the 'People Mover', Anchorage's bus system. We caught the bus literally right out front of our apartment building and rode into 'downtown'.
Our plan was to see some of the downtown museums. When we got off in downtown, we went into shopping mode first and window shopped our way up and down 4th, 5th & 6th street. Downtown is like any other city, really, just a bit more touristy. Also, in one direction you can see the Sound, and in the other, beautiful and majestic mountain range. So that's a little different!
After shopping and some tea, we went to the Achorage Museum which was half history of Alaska & half history of the Iditerod dogsled race. It was pretty good. Then we crossed the street and took in the Russian Orthodox Museum. It was a combination of R.O. church, coffee shop and "garage-band" level museum. It's worth stopping to see. There's a long and interesting history of the presence of Russians & the R.O. church in alaska. It only takes a few minutes and you'll not feel like you wasted it.
Afterwards, we had a reindeer sausage sandwich at a little place called 'Big Al's taste of Russia'. It was good and heavy if you're a meat-eater like me. Big Al's from Philadelphia, our neck of the woods & he served in the Airborne, so say 'hi' and thank him for his service.
We took in the open-air market on 3rd street then. It reminded us of the hokey festivals we knew and loved in PA! We bought some blueberry jam, made in AK.
Then we took the People-mover home to relax our aching dogs.
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