on my walk to work...

I pass this abandoned boat everyday on my walk to work and just think it's so cool- and so very Bethel.  What looks like a field is actually the tundra and soon (sooner than I would like) the tundra will be frozen over!  Some people think the first freeze will happen end of September, others think October, but everyone agrees that it will definitely be frozen by Halloween!  The one good thing about the tundra freezing over is that my walk to work will become significantly shorter since I'll be able to cut through it instead of walking around/over it like I do now (a bonus when it's -30 degrees and colder haha).  Oh Alaska. 

Week 2 in MAINE!

So this past weekend we got to do some fun stuff like walk around the city, go to the Portland Headlight which was beautiful (even though it was a little overcast), and go grocery shopping where we found Lobster for $4.99/lb.  Being that we are on a small stipend for groceries...we bought some haha...but only bought 4 for the 6 of us, even though the woman at the grocery store told us that normally she eats about 2 lobsters for a meal (oops).  But 4 actually lasted us and we tried to make our own lobster rolls.  I've been on the hunt for the cheapest Lobster roll in town since I want to be like a typical Mainer, but $8.25 (the cheapest we've found) is still a little too much, even though I may just splurge at one time.  The lobster and our lobster roll creation was delicious even though we were criticized by one of our JVC support people that we did it horribly wrong...but hey, lobster is lobster, and Maine is the place to be for Lobster so i'll eat it however I want. 

p.s. getting all the meat out of the lobster reminded me of eating crabs, and baltimore, and then LOYOLA, and so the best transition from crab is lobster, so lobster is our new best friend!! sorry Santh, salmon just isn't as good!

Here is where we will drink wine and watch the sunset over Missoula! This is the beginning of Mt. Setinal which is 2 blocks from my house.

From the Cleve to Cleeve Streeet. The kitchen/living room of our apartment