Alaska Trip March 4, 2006--Homer, Day 2a

Following breakfast at Cousin Ken's house, we left and checked out Sandy Mazen's pad. A pretty nice place in town. The weather was outstanding...clear, and nothing like the weather that had been forecast (snowy). Sandy invited us over for dinner on Monday night, and we accepted.

After leaving Sandy's, we drove out to check out Dad's new cabin. We have photos, but I will have to show some of those later. There was enough snow to snowshoe the 200 feet or so up to the front of his cabin, but the shoes weren't really necessary. After looking around inside, (Marci did jumping jacks to stay warm), we realized that the previous owner hadn't really known what he was doing, in a construction sense, and had messed up the sheet rock pretty well. In addition, the shower was dark orange (stained from the iron bacteria water problem in the well), and so was the kitchen sink and the toilet. The walls were covered with a hideous paneling. It was easy to make a list of things that had to go!

Later, we drove down the road to Aunt Bonnie's cabin and settled in...unloaded our stuff for our stay. We then drove into town with our laundry list of things to get for the cabin. After getting a little food at Don Jose's Cantina, we checked out Spenard's hardware and the True Value hardware stores. We found all kinds of good stuff for the cabin, but at a slightly higher price than would be expected in California. Comes with the territory. Cousin Ken managed to track us down in the True Value, and invited us over for dinner. Linda cooked us up a seafood feast, complete with salad, rockfish, shrimp, and Alaskan King crab. Very good stuff. We chatted and drank wine until about 10ish, then got in our borrowed Toyota and headed back to Bonnie's cabin. A very LONG day, but very nice. The bed was soft and inviting, and we all zonked out pretty quickly.