Hey, Alaska people?

[azurelunatic]

Any interesting dreams lately?

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[crisavec.livejournal.com]

None.....I don't sleep enough to remeber my dreams except perhaps on weekends.

[adjectivegail]

oooh, where in Alaska? :)

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

Anchorage

[adjectivegail]

*giggle* we got lost in Anchorage...

nice food, tho :)

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

oh yeh? where did you get lost at?

[adjectivegail]

okay, we didn't really get lost...
we did a two week cruise and land tour of parts of Alaska last summer. it was fun, and most of the places we visited in the first week (Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan) were so small that it was impossible to get lost. all you had to do to orientate yourself was look for the big ship on the skyline. and then we got to Anchorage (second week, Anchorage --> Fairbanks), and we were left the hotel to go look around for the afternoon, and we walked four blocks and my cousin said "oh no, where's the ship?!?" it was really funny.

ack, i'm running late! sorry, gotta scram

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

heheh...And here I just spent friday night walking around downtown Anchorage on a barhopping scavenger hunt. I can easily see getting lost when your used to small places then get to Anchorage where half the states population lives.

[adjectivegail]

someone told us that there're more caribou (around Anchorage, than there were people in Juneau. why do i always remember little details like that?

we were in Anchorage for half a day, and were actually slightly disappointed as we weren't given as many suggestions on things to see, as we had been for the other places. generally we wandered around and just looked in shop windows... there were a lot of shops selling nicknacks.

i liked Mt McKinley best. we didn't actually see very much of it whilst we were there, because there was heavy cloud cover and fog, but just generally i really enjoyed the feel of the place.

[azurelunatic]

Beautiful, isn't it?

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

uhmm....i think someone was fibbing to you. There aren't any Caribou near Anchorage, They tend to be a bit farther north...though I think there are a few herds down on the Kenai Peninsula. They might have ment Moose, but thats a strech. I know there are about 300 odd moose that live in the Anchorage Bowl area.

Anchorage doesn't have as much thats quaint or interesting to see from a tourist perspective, especialy in the downtown area(except for all those shops selling nicknacks). Its not a bad place to live really, just not that much to see where you were at.

McKinley is huge....big enough that it makes its own weather and is generaly visable about 40 days out of the year. I've had incredibly good luck being able to see McKinley the past few years though. People have started joking that I carry my own personal highpressure system with me, because everytime I've been up that way in the last few years I've seen McKinley either when going up or coming back down.

[adjectivegail]

*snaps fingers* y'know, as soon as i posted, i wondered if i'd got it wrong and had meant moose. but yeah, they said that there were more [whatever] around Anchorage than people in Juneau *shrugs* everywhere we went, the locals were telling us about how sparsely populated Alaska is, so by the time we heard that tidbit it didn't sound that weird to us :)

the '23hrs daylight in the middle of summer' thing still makes my head hurt, though. i mean, i like daylight. i love daylight. i adore sunshine. but i think that'd be a leetle bit too much...

and, rats but i wish you'd been around Mt McKinley when we were there! it rained the whole time *wrinkles nose*
but, by the end of the two weeks, half of me was convinced i could never live in a place of such extremes, and the other half of me was insisting it would be an absolutely fantastic life experience, to live there for twelve months *shrugs* *grins*

[azurelunatic]

But, you see, it's not *intense* daylight. At noon back home, the sun only ever got up to 9:30 or 10 AM by Arizona standards...

[azurelunatic]

I got lost there too.

I miss Fairbanks.

Hoooooome...

[azurelunatic]

Sleep is good. You should maybe be getting the more, eh?

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

Its the whole night owl thing. If its past 8 and I'm still awake, I'll be up for hours even if I'm deadtired.

It kinda sucks at times.

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

I had to go dark last night... I needed to process stuffs. So dreams were mostly rehashing of yesterday's convos... and other random bits of effluvia.

But nothing new.

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

At least none that I remember

[azurelunatic]

Since I got about two hours of sleep, I'm not in the least surprised.

Hm.

I wonder if there's some sort of dreamworld system that collects messages for users who are offline, like ICQ does, or if it has to be realtime, like AIM?

[crimmycat.livejournal.com]

some interesting ones, none I remember more than half a day. Why?

[azurelunatic]

I am showing up in dreams with big blue buildings.

[crimmycat.livejournal.com]

sorry, no blue buildings in my dreams lately. Pain, death, blood, fire, acting in a theatre, getting lost in an escher-nightmare bathroom, a bat or two, some swords and jupiter rising on the horizon, but no blue buildings or you.

now back to your regularly scheduled reality...

[azurelunatic]

Sounds about normal.