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Day 23
Woke up Josh this morning because I was so excited about getting my phone. Bonnie drove us to the AT&T store, they said yesterday that they had 200 pre-orders and were expecting just as many walk-ins, I've never waited in line for a release before so I was kind of nervous about what it would be like, but they put out the message they were opening at 10 but 7 for pre orders. We walked in the mall at 8:30 to get a good place in line, every other store in the mall was closed but the lights were shining bright in the phone store, there was a massive cue set up for the big lines because it is the biggest one in anchorage… except there wasn't anyone in the line so i walked in and asked where I am supposed to go since I don't have a pre-order, the guy said lets see, jane will take you over here, and I just walked up and got my phone! It's really awesome, has a really sweet camera. So got back to the house 4 or 5 hours earlier than I expected and just played with my phone. Then Bonnie dropped Josh and me off in the middle of downtown. Before we left I was waiting outside and there was a mosquito so large I caught it by its tail and was examining it flapping around, pretty crazy. Found some really crazy stores because since eskimos are allowed to whale and kill endangered animals there was furs, ivory, baleen, and some amazing eskimo art. One store had Walrus tusks tat had been carved with razor blades and needles so precisely that the pictures on them looked like black and white photographs, we saw some immaculate carved moose horns and one set of elk horns that 11 people took 6 months to carve. Every square millimeter was carved, and the lady told us there was more than 10000 animals on them, it was absolutely beautiful. I bought a really awesome sculpture of a bear (caved of mammoth bone) going after a fisherman (walrus tusk) and his fish (buffalo bone) on a base of mammoth bone, its sooo cool, and I got Mom a set of matching earrings and pendant made of fossilized walrus bone with wolves heads carved on them with some really small instrument because they are teeny but precise. We walked around for a while and went to this musk ox coop (the under fur of musk ox is warmer than wool, softer than cashmere, and lighter than both, its not some corny advert its quite true I tried on a hat), but each piece is hand knitted by eskimos. Ate at a local cafe and sat on a bench outside for a while. There, we heard this absolutely crazy loud roaring in the sky, we are close to an air force base but it was even ridiculous for that, but we never heard what was making it due to some low clouds. Saw a man selling reindeer hotdogs in a kilt, and a street performer playing a mix between a recorder and a keytaur, kinda weird. Bryan drove us back and we stopped at Lowe's to get something and the lady that helped us didn't look special at all, but when she turned around and walked away she looked EXACTLY like David Dockery even in the way she walked, except she had tight pants. Back at the house we got Wi-Fi finally! I'm starting to be ready to go home, I'm kind of not sure if my day count is accurate but if it is I will have been here 27 days which is most definitely the longest I've ever been away from home and my family… and dogs. Oh well it has been fun and there is much more to do, the lady at the store told us about a mountain that has trails to the top (and a few good jokes) so hopefully we can finally do that, and I need to go to the beach still!
Breakfast: BK
Lunch: Reuben on sourdough, yummy!
Dinner: Bonnie's take on a taco salad, not to bad.
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