Kenai River Rafting

a black bear! we saw a total of like 3 or 4 bears. i think 2 brown and 2 black. one black and one brown were sort of close together, but they were too far off to get pictures of.


see the bald eagles in the trees? one is in the tree in the pic below too.

more pretty scenery...
we saw this brown bear just down from the russian/kenai river confluence! he was sort of small. and seemed very content, there were people much closer than i would have gone to him, and he was really not bothered. just kind of mosied around the bank.
poor little guy, picking up trash in his home.
here duckys...
imagine all the people....
audrey as we started off...
Nick and his boys, sam and alex, who were both quite small. they seemed to have fun.
Me. it felt so wierd not have andy on my lap the whole time.
fish anyone?
just a pretty river....

So yesterday i went rafting from kenai lake up in cooper landing to some point down river. it was about a 3 hr ride or so, and they stopped at the russian river confluence because the guy (nick) who took us wanted to fish, (even though i dont think he really knew how to fish, fish were jumping all around him and he didnt catch any! and i just didnt want to fish. and i thought he being a native alaskan (hes not native native, but grew up here), i thought he would have known how to fish, so i didnt give him any advice, but maybe i should have...), anyways, it was fun. i think it definitely would have been much more fun with dan and andy, but still alright. i was freezing though. it was drizzling when we started, and then the rain let up, but i just didnt warm up, even though i had a rain poncho and i wasnt wet, i was just chilly. very glad to get home and take a nice hot shower. i dont think i completely warmed up though until this morning... well, andy has started a new thing, he loves to wear his shoes (because it means someone MIGHT take him outside). its so funny, he grabs both his shoes and walks over to the door and tries to get someone to take him out. today it was actually nice weather outside, which has been rare up here, so i took him outside on the grass and played with him, he LOVES that. dan watched andrew yesterday when i went to the rafting thing, and they had fun on the lawn, dan said hes quite the little soccer player. oh by the way, me , aud, dave , emma , nick and his 2 small boys were who went rafting. we didnt have andys car seat so we couldnt get him up to the river. so dan and him stayed home. wasnt the warmest day for rafting anyways.