Alaska: The Last Frontier!

We have arrived in Alaska and it's absolutely gorgeous!
Here's a shot from our plane ride in...

The campus activities director and a student picked us up from the airport and gave us a mini-tour of Anchorage this morning. This afternoon we spent hiking one of the many beautiful trails along the water. Most of the leaves have already fallen, but a few trees are still brilliant in color...

It's about 40-45 degrees here as a high right now, which is very chilly for us desert cats, but we're dressed for it, and enjoying one of the many seasons that Tucson doesn't experience.
We had a great lunch at Snow City Cafe. It's the perfect weather for hot cocoa and dessert, so we indulged and had cream cheese pumpkin pie!...here's a photo from our walk 'home' after eating...

This evening the guys played a teaser set at the University of Alaska Anchorage to promote tomorrow night's concert. The crowd was quite receptive, which was fun. Then we had dinner in the dining hall, which is always a fun experience...unfortunately the frozen yogurt machine was down though! :(
The Student Activities Director who has been showing us around is from the Boston area and has a wicked thick accent even though he's lived here for 30 years, so it's been fun spending time with him and hearing his stories of both Boston and Alaskan adventures. Tomorrow morning we driving down the Seward Highway to Girdwood for a hike on the Winner Creek trail and then up a cliff to see some mountain goats. I guess there are moose all around this area, so hopefully we'll see some while we are out and about tomorrow (hopefully not while I'm runnin though! :)...and it's also a perfect time of year to see the Northern Lights...hopefully there are less clouds tomorrow so we get a good glimpse! :)