Meg's Typing
Well another early morning start for us here in Anchorage - oohh early just as the sun was rising around 10.30am. First thing was to call everyone back in Australia and wish all the family a huge wintery Merry Christmas from both of us here in Alaska. Then around 2pm we decided that we should start grocery shopping for our Christmas Feast - Roast Turkey with all the trimmings. After much research on how to cook Turkey Legs (neither of us had any idea - nor did we think we could eat an entire Turkey) we set off for Fred Meyers. A brisk 2.5 km walk, we arrived only to decide to walk across the six lane highway for the second time to shop at Sears.
Elona Typing
Sears is more a white goods store with clothing stuff as well - ie more a department store. Our first order of business was mitts (that's local he he he) mittens! And I am disappointed to say I couldn't buy black but the difference in warmth compared to gloves was enough to encourage the buying some not so attractive beige mitts : / Onward and upward - I really need to keep out of stores - seriously!!! We came across a lovely local inuit style stall where I purchased a hair thingy that is a baby inuit on a piece of leather that you run a stick through...ok that doesn't sound good but it's really cute - check out the picture it's hard to describe. I actually realised after purchase that it would need to be packed as the said stick has a quite sharp end and airlines may find it threatening...ooops.
I just seem to have a ball in shops - I love looking at the different types of food - the wacky way they present/display food for eg they had the brussel sprouts attached to their stalks - who knew??- it kind of looked like a banana branch laiden with fruit - just weird!! As I must of looked as well as I took a photo of it!!! Check it out. Due to our lateness we kind of missed out on the fresh turkey leg and had to resort to a choice of frozen breasts...or entire turkeys - hence the breast option which on reading the packaging said guaranteed fool proof - we thought that sounds alot like us and bought the sucker along with many other things including cranberry sauce and a pumpkin pie. The pumpkin pie was a replacement for the xmas pudding as these are hell expensive and custard is really hard to find. ooooh yes we also bought some alcohol - the man at the store thought we were hilarious because we bought miniature bottles of Bailey's and a small bottle of Kahlua. I don't think many people buy small anything in this place!
It was a quiet night - more phonecalls home and a special message left outside because Meg's told me with all our moves and mail redirections that Santa would NOT be able to find me! Horror!!! Cruel really so I spent a bit of time writing in the snow outside the unit "For Santa Lon here (with an arrow pointing to our door) and the # of the unit. I headed to bed a little disappointed that Meg's wouldn't leave out any Baileys for Santa but confident that Santa would find me.He could also just have followed the carols as I am in love with radio station 98.9 that Patrick told us about that plays Xmas carols 24/7. Just dreamy AND you know what.....I'm sure that I've caught Meg's singing along ...with exuberance as well - Alaska has found her Xmas spirit - it just needed some snow that's all!!
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