Hello all! Welcome to my crazy little world currently playing from the great state of Alaska. Today was a fabulous day. Sometimes I can’t believe this life is mine! I am so truly blessed. I hope everyone down home in the “lower 48” is doing fantastic. As much as I am loving it here, I’m starting to miss home. Especially those nearest and dearest to me (love you daddy!)

Today was great. I’m really starting to love diabetes clinic. I’m kinda sad tomorrow is my last day with Judy and her team. I am however happy that I will not need to be at the hospital at 7:30 anymore. I’m learning so much everyday. I can only hope it sticks with me! Today in clinic I met a man who used to be a heckhand on a crab boat in the Bering Sea! He however did his stent about 30 years ago…before Discovery Channel made crab fishing so cool! I also met a pharmacist who exactly one month ago got attacked by a bear on his way to work while biking! CRAZY STUFF! He showed us where the sow’s canines went into his left ankle and calf muscle. INTENSE! He was biking and came upon her suddenly with her cub. He said it was his fault so at least he wasn’t angry at her. She just meant to neutralize him, not kill him. He said she was about 450 lbs (small for brown bear standards) and knocked Shawn around for about 2 minutes. Wow, these are things I see on TV! I actually met someone who survived a brown bear attack.

After work, we came home and decided we needed some things from the store. So I decided I would bike down and get them since it’s less than 3 miles away. Good idea in theory. Bad idea in practice. Groceries on my shoulders and in my backpack made for a hell of a ride on some Anchorage hills. I regretfully say I had to get off and push my bike once. That hill was just too intense for grocery lugging. I found a neat little mall though that sells native jewelry and they were right there making it! So cool. It was an interesting adventure b/c I kinda sorta got lost but I called Stepahnie back at UAA and she used her iPhone to get me to where I was going! yay! I’m loving my adventures here and enjoying the little things. It’s hard to believe 2 weeks is already up.

Well I’m going to get packing for our camping trip to the Kenai river with Judy, Brittany and their families. We will get to experience a true salmon run! This is going to be so cool! Pictures to come. Hopefully Saturday night I will be eating FRESHLY caught salmon on the banks of a river in southern Alaska. Can life really get any better than that friends? Love and miss you all!