Once we got all of our things settled into the hotel, I wandered around and petted some cats and dogs, and Andy checked out our hot tub and mini pool. The Residence Suites had a beautiful deck overlooking the caldera and a cute little front porch. You can see really beautiful pictures of the hotel […]
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Santorini, Greece
Santorini was, hands down, my favorite part of the entire trip. The island was magnificent and more beautiful than I imagined. Santorini is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, roughly 120 miles from the Greece mainland. It’s about 35 square miles and sits essentially inside an old dormant volcano known as the “caldera.” […]
Animals of Greece and How You Can Help Them
Andy and I saw a lot of dogs and cats during our couple weeks in Greece. Most were strays, many were injured or hungry, and almost all of them broke my heart. A couple times to the point where I simply was unable to emotionally handle it. When we first arrived back to Alaska and […]
Honeymoon Day 2 Part II: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Changing of the Guards, and Dinner at Ορίζοντες (Orizontes)
TEMPLE OF OLYMPIAN ZEUS After prying me away from Katrina the Kitty, Andy and I continued our exploration of Athens and made our way towards the Temple of Olympian Zeus, near the base of the Acropolis across the main thoroughfare of Athens. One section of the Temple of Olympian Zeus Construction of the Temple began […]
Honeymoon Day 2 Part I: Exploring Athens, the Acropolis, the Plaka District, and My First Animal Friend
ATHENS Athens deserves a little bit of a historical rundown in order to understand its expansive history and ancient monuments. Before we left, the few guidebooks and websites we read described Athens as over-filled with concrete apartment complexes, unbearable traffic jams, and unrelenting clouds of smog known as nefos. While Andy and I did discover […]
Honeymoon Day 1: Hotel Grand Bretagne and the Rooftop Terrace Restauraunt
Our flight left on August 18th very early in the morning, about 1:30 a.m., so naturally we had to be at the airport at 9:30 p.m. the night before à la Andrew Baldock/George Huxtable style (Elsie remember….”Everyone is at the airport! It’s a Wednesday!“). We had an ungodly number of connections and there were multiple points […]
Fishing with Mr. Zimmerman!
I am fortunate enough to work for two fantastic partners at my law firm, Zimmerman & Wallace, here in Fairbanks. Andy and I have spent the past year getting to know them and their families, and have truly enjoyed the time we spend with them both. This weekend, Chris Zimmerman invited Andy and I down […]
Wrangell St Elias National Park & McCarthy/Kennicott
One of our annual summer excursions is to drive down to Wrangell St. Elias National Park to go camping, hiking, and donate our blood to the always-heinous mosquito population of southeast Alaska. Wrangell St. Elias is the largest National Park in the country, comprised of roughly 13.2 million acres and home to McCarthy, the only fully […]
Denali Sled Dog Kennels and 229 Parks Restaurant
During the summers, Denali Park allows visitors to meet and greet with the Alaska Husky sled dogs at the Kennels located about 15 minutes into the park. I’ve wanted to go for a long time and despite the fact that Andy implored me to drop the idea as the entire thing, in his opinion, was […]
Rock Climbing!
When I was younger, around 12 or so, my Dad got bit by the rock climbing bug, drug Elsie and I to REI and purchased an ungodly amount of rock climbing gear: ropes, shoes, harnesses, carabiners, chalk bags, rock climbing guide book, etc. It was epic. And incredibly fun. So fun in fact that Dad […]