i miss alaska in summer

When I think about what to do over the weekends during Houston summer, I get sad thinking that it's too hot out to enjoy being outside. There are no after work bike rides or going for leisurely walks. My free time is spent wherever there's air conditioning. I got a nice break from the air conditioning while in St. Johns, Newfoundland. The temperature, plants, and surrounding ocean remind me so much of home in the summer time. This time when I went back to the Lookout, I saw plants there that we have in Unalakleet. They smelled exactly like them! Having a small treat of Newfoundland summer and seeing everyone's Alaskan summer pictures on Facebook really, really makes me miss home in summer time. I miss the beach walks and picnics and rides up the road or up river and down the coast. I miss watching boats go down the guuk (river) past my mom's house. I even miss mosquitoes buzzing around while fishing upriver. Without voicing any of these thoughts to James recently, today he offered to make uuraq for dinner. My man. :) Uuraq is fish soup and at home we often make it fresh right out of the river in summer. I love it with salmon eggs. So even though James has made uuraq before, he still needed to know how long to cook everything. So he pulled out the cookbooks from Unalakleet and from Nome to find recipes. Most of them were vague. So we got on Laureli Kinneen's blog and went to her Eskimo Food entries. I knew she'd have a recipe! Thanks Laureli. You're the best.the plants in newfoundland like what we have in unalakleet. what are they called?James and the ulu making uuraq.

Yellow Belly Brewery

I ate lunch at the Yellow Belly Brewery in St. Johns. Here's their margherita pizza and pale ale. The Yellow Belly Brewery is at the end of George Street. Here's something from Wikipedia...It is believed that George Street has the most bars and pubs per square foot of any street in North America...hmmm, it's a pretty short street. Next time I'm in St. Johns I'll take a picture of George Street.

St. Johns Part 3

These are a series of pictures moving from the bay in St. Johns out towards the Atlantic Ocean from the view of The Lookout.


I think the furthest point in this picture is Cape Spear, the most eastern point in North America.

More St. Johns

Down by the dock.
Flag signals for the ships.
The British used this Lookout for incoming French ships. Apparently, the French outsmarted the British by going into different bays on the island...four times.