Best Day Ever!!

The saying supposedly goes that everything is bigger in Texas, but as I have come to find out someone is mistaken and it’s all really much bigger in Alaska. Bugs of all kinds are WAY bigger (mosquito’s and dragon flies in particular), the animals, and the mountains. A little note: your wallet better be bigger too… (Things are a little more costly!)

We have seen a lot of amazing wonders thus far in our travels and they all have had an enormous impact on us (the photo’s are amazing, but will never truly tell the whole story); however one place we visited seems to be the mother of all. In short we along with Mike’s parents, brother Dan and his wife Jonna, (who met us here for a week from Hawaii), chartered an 8-seater plane to take us to the summit of Mt. McKinley better known as Denali. Denali is the largest mountain in North America (over 20,000 ft. tall), it rises 18,000 ft. out of the tundra which gives a view of 18,000 vertical feet of mountain. Just as a comparison, all you see of Everest is 11,000 ft. It is also considered to be the coldest mountain in the world (it was -20 degrees on the summit on the beautiful sunny day, in the most perfect conditions, in July when we flew over). It is massive, awe inspiring, and the most amazing sight to behold. We got to spend over an hour flying less than 1 mile away from the mountain and the whole Alaska Range. All I can say is that I don’t think we ever realize how small and minute we really are in the scope of the earth we live upon, until we witness something that puts us in our place.