Spring in Juneau

Long time since my last post…time flies when you’re having fun!

Indeed, it has been a fun spring. Since my last post, way back in March, I’ve been back to Vancouver for the month of April, which absolutely flew by, and had my formal wedding on the 24th up in Osoyoos. (Some informal pix can be viewed through my Picassa albums.) I arrived back to Juneau on April 30th, just in time for the May 1st start of the Annual King Salmon Derby!! Sadly, however, we’ve only been out 3 times and only caught one measly little 15lb King. I still find it amazing how much meat you can still get off such a modest sized fish!

Spring here has been, apparently, out of the ordinary, but it’s certainly been right up my ally. We have had day after day of cloudless sunny skies and temperatures upwards of 18C, which is understandably not the norm for a rain forest. Typical or not, it has made it nearly impossible to not fall in love with this town with this kind of weather. I’ve even become so domestic as to plant my own little flower planters…we’ll see how long they last in the absence of my green thumb!

I’ve been continuing my attempt of learning to run; A “hobby” I picked up while I was home in April due to a slight fear I’d out grown my wedding gown! What amazes me the most here is how fresh and clean the air is, even after days without rain. Definitely one of my favorite things about Juneau is how little (if any) pollution there is.
Andy has headed off for the weekend (it’s a long weekend here: Memorial Day) with the guys (including my father) for a mass fishing trip. They head over to a massive “island” where there is a little bay called Elfin Cove which apparently has some of the best fishing in the area. It’s a 4 hour, by boat, journey. I haven’t quite decided what I’ll be doing with myself for the next 3 days, but I think I have a fairly good idea…

My latest guilty pleasure has been the Twilight series. I scoffed and how much publicity it seemed to be getting and at how all the “silly” girls were swooning over “Edward Cullen”. Sadly, I have become one of those “silly” girls… Ok, so maybe I’m not the swooning type, but I can’t lie, I’ve definitely become addicted to the sickeningly pathetic romance and suspense. I’ve made it through both of the first 2 books (500+ pages each) and just broke down and bought the last 2 in hard cover because I’m too impatient to wait until August for the paper backs!

So that’s been my last 2 months in a nut shell….I’ll try to be better at more consistent updates, providing life is exciting enough to have something to update!