Saturday, August 15, 2015

Anchorage - Alaska Native Heritage Center

Steve here:
We awoke this morning to 45*, not bad.
Our goal today was to hit Anchorage and perhaps touch base with one of our Naples Lobster Pound ladies.  Time will tell..
We pulled through town and found the campground I had originally picked - as had Woodalls - but it sits right beside a railroad track.  We have been there.....
So, we back tracked and pulled into The Centennial Park Campground.  The sites are well treed and well spaced - and the wi-fi works - so who's to complain!?!
Minor problem with our water pump as we have no water on site.
We headed out to find adventure and a RV shop, but it was Saturday afternoon....
We made it to downtown and found a cute moose oriented gift shop and picked up some gifts.
Strange thing.  Our GPS is not Alaska friendly, so we have been navigating by the stars.  Today we remembered that Josh and Dan, and the rest of the free world, use their phones to find places.  OMG! It works!!
We found the Ulu factory and even purchased a gift for ourselves!
Using our phones 😊 we then made our way to the Alaska Native Heritage Center.  I wish you all could go there.  We did find Bonnie a nice birthday necklace, but the most amazing part was human!
There was a lady from St. Lawrence Island who told about her life.  She was wonderful!  Then, there was this group - and I think they were from the same area - and they did native dancing.  The lead man had a Navy veteran hat on, and he ran the show.  I hope Bonnie shares photos, but I did audio some of it to share with Julia.  It was an amazing afternoon!
They did end with an audience participation.  That was a bit scary, but we did it!!

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