Four Hikes and One New Roommate

This week was not as busy as you would think in the shops. It was super slow and not as many customers. We had Wednesday off and went on a beautiful hike. We also got a new roommate! Before we go on about our hikes we will do our roommate spotlight!

Everyone meet:: Bailie 

She is from Kaysville, Utah and is simply the sweetest and cutest girl in the ward. She just turned 20 and did not tell us that it was her birthday. We celebrated by eating delicious Brew Co and having ice-cream (funny side story). Bailie just graduated from Snow College and Dixie is in her future. She loves dogs and art. Today we took her on her first Alaska hike!

Now on to our 4 hikes we did! In total we hiked 17 miles and man it felt dang good!

Wednesday we had work off and so did Stephanie so we went up to Icy Lake and Upper Reid Falls. It was so beautiful and a really good hike. When we went to go to the falls we got a little lost, Ashley lost her water bottle :( and went off course but it was a good time. 

John working in the Kone

Thursday we worked a half day since the cruise that was suppose to come in was cancelled. We worked upstairs and unpacked shoes. TONS AND TONS OF SHOES. But it was fun and nice to be away from crazy people asking crazy questions. It was pretty warm up there. The manger from the Kone Kompany, John, was super nice and made us milkshakes randomly. A quick spotlight on John: He is one of the coolest people you will find in Skagway. He is a native and when he isn't scooping ice-cream here, he lives in Portland where he races bikes. He is going to be going professional this next year. He is good for a laugh and is not afraid to make fun of you. Currently his thing is calling Aisha a Troll but she calls him Shrek. Little does he know, they will be best friends by the end of the summer.

After work we relaxed for a little but and that night we went on a hike with Sheeba to the Gold Rush Cemetery and Lower Reid Falls. The Cemetery was all old fashioned

 and has lots of Skagway history. The Lower Reid Falls was amazing to see and to think we had just been to the top the day before.

Friday Aisha, Stephanie, and Ashlee went to a bonfire at Smugglers Cave, which is another hike. It was a beautiful hike that will be done again! 

Saturday was Baillie's birthday and she failed to tell us. In Skagway everything, but the bars, close pretty dang early so we would not even get her a cake or anything delicious. HOWEVER, Little Ashlee saved the day! Earlier that day in radio-shack the freezer was left open and a bunch of ice-cream melted so they couldn't sell it and they were going to throw it away. So Ashlee just took it and put it in the freezer. We ended up having 16 pints of ice-cream in our freezer, however 16 are not in our freezer right now. oh boy! haha

It was a nice rainy Sunday here. Church was full! It seems like all the summer help is here and all ready to go! After church we went on what we thought would be an easy hike when it was actually 7 miles! Oh man it was so amazing out there. Alaska is seriously one of the prettiest places in the world. It was also Bailie's first Alaska hike! 

At the end of Sturgil's Landing

And there you have it! This week we will be having more ships and customers so it will be busier! We have Thursday off so stay tuned for our next adventure!

Love From Alaska.