Moose Scat Scoot

Greetings!  This has been an interesting week.  Admittedly I've been pretty down for most of it.  Homesickness set in and a longing for being around familiar people was hard to shake.  I've also spent most of the week working by myself around the property.  I've either been in our second lodge or off property renting out bikes.  It gave me a lot of time to read though I managed to get through Pride and Prejudice in about 4 days.  I highly recommend reading it if you haven't yet it's a great book.  I couldn't tell you why it hooked me like it did but after the first 3 chapters I didn't want to put it down!

My schedule also changed this week so I'm working 7 days straight before my 2 days off which means that all of my friends are out backpacking right now while I'm at work, that was a bummer but I've made other plans.  Myself and 3 others are going to head to Seward tomorrow.  Seward is south of Anchorage right on the water.  We're going to camp on the water's edge and do some kayaking!  Two of our co-workers just got back and said it was great, they got to see a lot of marine life so I'm looking forward to that.  We'll be back Thursday afternoon before our afternoon shifts.

Yesterday I ran the 5K in the Moose Scat Scoot, it's a race put on by our activities coordinators.  There was a 1.5 mile fun/run/walk, a 5K and a half marathon.  I am working towards the half in August and after seeing the course feel confident that in another month and a half I can run it.  I'd like to finish right around 2 hours.  I finished yesterday's race in my fastest 5k time ever, 30 mins flat.  It helps that the course was mostly downhill too :-). I have some pictures from last monday when Steph, Alex and I went out to Eielson that I will post tonight.  Keep leaving comments I love getting to read them! Take care