So I finished off yesterday with details of our first dangerous encounter – earthquake. So today we continued assimilating into our Alaskan way of life and came across our first two moose! It was when we went back to look over the two houses we liked. After seeing the second one (great house, not great location), Pete walked up the street with Naomi and wandering through the back garden of a house up the street were two moose. Lydia and I joined them and we all got quite excited at our first moose experience (I think the neighbours probably thought we were nuts!).
So after much deliberating we decided to put in a low offer to rent the great house in the poorer location (I'll call it Headlands from now as that is the name of the street). We decided if it was meant to be for us we'd get it. Of course as soon as we'd done that I got all nervous about it – would it be too big? Would we ever be able to live in something smaller again? Is it too far away from everything? But I guess if we get it I'll just focus on all the positive bits.
I went round to Pete's colleague's house with the girls in the afternoon. His name is Brent and his wife is Debbie. She was so lovely. She had even offered for us to bring some laundry round. Naomi sat playing on my phone and with her sticker book, Lydia was happily taking in her surroundings and chewing on her toys and so Debbie and I had a lovely chat. They have just moved to Anchorage from Canada so are familiar with the settling in to Alaska process that we are going through. Pete and Brent got home and we all had a lovely dinner. Brent and Debbie held Lydia lots over dinner as she was getting fussy. Was so nice to sit and enjoy a meal and they seemed happy having a play with Lydia. A lovely couple.
Back at the hotel I did some cooking for Lydia (she's on solids and it's so hard to buy baby food without lots of chemicals or that isn't completely watered down). It's a difficult process using what's available in the hotel room kitchen but I'm managing.
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