Past 3 days in overview

Day 1 of the trip was from Anchorage to Tok. The entire trip went incredibly well, I think it took around 5-6 hours. I started to feel a little sick though, I don't do so well with curvy, bumpy, incredibly high if we fall off the road we die roads :) Here are some photos from the first leg of the journey.


MalibuBarbie and MalibuDenver:




On the way there:

A moose: I love 'em; gonna miss 'em

Our cabin in Tok, it was amazing. I would recommend anyone traveling through there to stay here and eat at Fast Eddy's!

Day 2:

We drove from Tok to Haines Junction in the Yukon of Canada. This trip went seemingly better for everyone but me. The frost heaves were much like a roller coaster in the truck, I was beyond sick at this point. *note there are no pictures of MalibuBarbie this day*

Passing into Canada

It's beautiful here


Stopping for lunch:

Haines Junction

Day 3: Haines (where we are right now)

I had to make the pictures smaller because we are paying for internet by the capacity so I wanted to save some for tomorrow, I have SO many more pictures!

The drive from Haines Junction to Haines was so incredibly beautiful! Not only am I feeling MUCH better today it was a short drive, maybe 3 hours and it's incredible here.

Here is MalibuKaeden and MalibuFenris with their shades on:


An upcoming storm after the shades:


US boarder (home sweet home)


"Good" boat in Haines:


MalibuKen and MalibuKaeden



Tomorrow we get on the ferry and we will be on it until Friday, so of course no phone or internet. Cross your fingers for a good trip, in which I don't get sick and we see lots of whales!

Worst Surprise EVER

I got an email from a professor of class I NEED to graduate that said the final I turned in to him on Tuesday morning was not what he requested and I have until Sunday to fix it. Not sure if we will have internet or not; so here's to hoping I pass. Glad he could let me know 12 hours before I am set to move.

In other news we are headed to Tok in T minus 1 hour!

Don't drink the water...there's blood in the water

Okay, it's not really blood but an over abundance of fluoride. I wish I were kidding. We didn't have drinking water on post for 2 days, it was crazy!

Tomorrow starts our trip officially! We leave here and are going to Tok, Alaska. We just finished up our travel plans by booking our hotel in Forks and in Portland...I'm so freaking excited!

I also submitted all my school work so that is officially done. Well, I am quite exhausted but wanted to give a quick update so my adoring fans wouldn't miss me; not sure if we will have Internet in Tok but I'll give an update ASAP!

2x Tuesday!

Yay for Tuesday, I think :)

Today has been the day of pizza, and if there is one thing MalibuBarbie loves it's pizza! I had lunch with Tresha at Costco...I know classy ;) and I got to meet her finance--he gets my MalibuBarbie seal of approval for sure! Then MalibuKen and I ordered the 2x Tuesday deal at PapaJohns and have enough pizza to last us the rest of the week, woot! MalibuKPP also ate 2 entire slices.

I spent literally most of my day at UAA. I took 2 finals, and turned in my data analysis report. I am officially 3 questions away from being done with school for this semester...totally stoked! XD Although I did say my goodbyes today to faculty, staff and friends. It was incredibly sad, but I surprisingly didn't cry!

Goodbye UAA:


I'm loving where we are staying, it's such a nice hotel complete with breakfast in the morning which is always a plus. The downside is they do play reverie at like 6am...ugh!



I am working on figuring out where we are going to stay in Forks and Portland right now, hopefully I will have that done before we leave on Friday.

Tomorrow at 9:30 Sadie gets taken to the place in order to be shipped, Imma miss my girl!

Gotta love a place called Humpy's

Today MalibuKen took MalibuKaeden for me while I had lunch with two of my girl friends it was awfully wonderful! We went to Humpy's and had beer and carrot cake and burgers and it was fantastmic :)

The family moved into our new hotel where we will stay until Friday morning, in which our actual trek will begin.

Today went by way too quickly. I can't believe this was our last weekend here. I'm glad we were able to spend so much time with our friends.

We didn't have a kitchen in this hotel like we had originally thought so I am in need of dinner ideas for a mini fridge and microwave. I have a feeling I'm going to be DYING for a homecooked meal by the time I ever get in our next house.

I don't have too much left for school but it looks a lil' something like this:

Psych homework (Monday)
Psych final (by Thursday)
Justice organization and management final (by Thursday)
Development of law final (Tuesday)
Justice and Society final (Wednesday)
Data Analysis paper (by Thursday)

I know that once I get all this done I will feel so much better and probably start to get super excited about actually leaving, as for now I just have that looming feeling in my chest.

That's about all I have for today, so I will leave everyone with this one thought. I really want some Oreos and milk, and I'm guessing after you read this statement you will to :)

It has begun....

Yesterday MalibuKen finished cleaning the house up and met the buyer to hand over the keys. I can't say I'm too happy about that, but more later...I'm about to tell a juicy story!

So...about 1pm I called the hotel we were supposed to be staying at for 2 days to see what time we could check in. The promptly informed me that "someone" had called and cancelled our reservation on the 8th (which is when MalibuKen actually made the reservations), and they had no room for us those nights. MalibuKen went all MalibuChuckNorris on their asses and all the did was cry. So we thought we would call the hotel that we are staying in Sunday-Friday to see if we could just get an extra 2 days tacked on, but as we were calling the lady next to our representative was booking their last room....you've got to be FREAKING kidding me!?!?!

So our $25/day hotel turned in much more expensive, but results in us staying in Eagle River a couple more days...so all in all not a bad trade off. I can't wait to post pictures of where we are staying; it is the sketchiest looking place on earth, but not so bad on the inside. Even funnier is I can literally take a picture of our *old* neighborhood from here.

So last night was fun, we went with the Hawkins family to Pizza Man :) YUM! 4 pitchers of beer later....we walked back home/hotel...like I said FUN. Becky and Joey bought us awesome tie die shirts from pizza man and signed them with marker, hopefully I'll have pics of that up soon too -- way cute!

However, when we walked back to their house I saw the new owner moving into our house. I was so territorial, I mean what is she doing in MY house. Oh, wait, I guess it's not "my" house anymore and hasn't been for about 3 weeks. I'm happy that we found a buyer so soon, don't get me wrong just wish that I hadn't had to see her move in. MalibuKen on the other hand just thinks "Good riddance, house!"

So on the agenda today includes, me having lunch with some girlfriends at Humpy's, and then I think we are having dinner with the Hawkins at their house.

Right now the MalibuLaptop is having a really hard time charging and we are working hard to fix this issue as both MalibuKen and MalibuBarbie are complete nerds and NEED the internet.

Happy 8th birthday MalibuFenris!

It's Tuesday, and MalibuFenris' birthday at that. My big boy puppy is 8 years old which means he transitions into being a "senior" poo boo.

Time flies when you are having fun, or have a lot of stuff to keep you busy.

I have worked on a lot of school work lately. I don't have too much left to do in that arena. I have my Justice and Soceity final, my Development of Law final, half of my Psychology final, my court report, Psych homework, Justice organization final and quiz, and my 8-10 page paper on my research findings. Like I said...not bad!

We move out of the house on Friday, and so far MalibuKen has done an outstanding job on getting the house cleaned.

I'm exhausted, I can't believe we move in 10 days. In just 10 short days I'll be leaving Alaska. Crazy. On one hand I'm ready for it and on the other I'm like really, so soon??