And The ADVENTURE Continues...: June 25, 2016 Anchorage and the Farmers Market and June 26, 2016 Trip to Wasilla and the Iditarod Museum, Scottish Games and Aurora Borealis Movie

Saturday, June 25, 2016 Anchorage and the Farmers Market

We stopped on the road to see if we could see Denali at the North View and the South View but she was in the clouds. At one time we did see her peak but that was it. We arrived at our campground before noon. Mike and I have stayed at this one before and this time they were really packed with just a few sites available. We had lunch and off we went. Mike and I had a few vendors that we wanted to see again and Jim and Terry had a very good day seeing the talent a lot of these vendors had. We all did some shopping.

Sunday, June 26, 2016 Trip to Wasilla and the Iditarod Museum, Scottish Games and Aurora Borealis Movie

We woke up to it raining pretty good but we are still going and play in the rain. We made it to the Iditarod Museum just in front of 2 buses and then they left and 3 more buses rolled in so it was a popular place. Wasilla is where the Iditarod started in 1973. The trail that is used is the same one the Athabascan used before the gold rush. The movie that was shown gave you a good look at understanding the dogs and the mushers.

As we headed out we heard that there were some Scottish games going on at the fairgrounds in Palmer. So off we went to see them. The clouds were hanging around but we got to watch some different games and then the rain decided to show its ugly head and that ended our afternoon.

After dinner we headed downtown to see the Aurora movie. This was very well done by a local person David Parkhurst. He has been taking pictures for over 30 years of the Aurora Borealis. No one can predict these lights. They appear after the sun has had an eruption of a solar flare. The charged particles are drawn into our magnetic field and the gases emit the light we see as aurora. The color can be green, pink-red, blue and purple and the rarest of color is red and red orange. We all enjoyed the film. I stated that it was a good way to see these Northern Lights without standing out in the winter’s cold.

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