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It's hard to believe that I've been here for 11 days already. This summer is going to fly. We finished training this week. It was fun, but exhausting. We had yesterday and today to recoup though. This weekend we have our first tours for locals before the cruise ships start coming in. I've had multiple people asking me what the heck I'm doing in Alaska. I did not realize I had not explained what my job is. My job title is a canopy tour guide for Alaska Canopy Adventures. The course is a series of 9 ziplines, 2 sky bridges, and a repel at the end. So, what I do is take people (mainly groups coming off cruise ships) through the course. I'm responsible for getting them geared up, teaching them how to zip, and clipping/unclipping each of them at every platform. Basically I get payed to play on ziplines all day long. In Alaska. In the rain forest. It's awesome. I have a short clip from when I did it last summer of vacation, but keep in mind this was in August. Right now it's April, so there is still lots of snow. I'm ready for it all to melt. It makes the hike up to the top not much fun. But this gives you a small taste of what I'll be doing every day this summer.




I work/live with some of the coolest people. We still have about 3 people moving into our house sometime within the next week or so. There were 8 in my first training group, so there will be many more coming within the next couple weeks. I find it amusing that of about 30 guides, there are only 8 girls. Whatev. I'm also the only one from the "south." Apparently Kansas falls into that category to the people here. Never have I been made so much fun of for saying "y'all." There are several people from Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, ect.

It blows my mind how crazy expensive everything is here. Even walmart. It's ridiculous. I spent 12 dollars on milk and cereal. I spent 6 dollars on a latte downtown. I make my own coffee every morning now, thank you very much! And get this: there isn't even a dollar menu at McDonalds. It's the McValue meal and everything is a $1.50. Then at subway it's not the $5 footlong, it's the $6 footlong. Bogus.

We have really lucked out with the weather since we have been here. We have had little rain, which has made training so much more pleasent. This is a video I took on Easter Sunday from my balcony. It was gorgeous.




Yesterday was beautiful outside too. We exlpored all around Juneau, though we spent most of our day on the bus because none of us knew where we were going. Last night I went down to the beach along the Gastineau Channel at sunset and got some pretty sweet scenery pics. I'm sure by the end of summer I will have millions of pictures of these mountains. I can't get enough of them. Why have I lived in Kansas all my life? Lame.
























































































































That's all I got for ya now, kids. Keep it real.