Out and About on Star Wars Day

It's really cool living near an Air Force Base.  You get to see awesome planes sometimes!  I saw my first AWACS...

We went to the train depot on 1st Street (since their website is dumb...) and bought some 2-for-1 train tickets for next Saturday...the destination is a secret for now.  (How's that for suspense??  Don't worry, I will take the "real" camera on the trip and blog all about it!)

We went downtown and found the coolest running store called Skinny Raven.  I got a Strassburg sock to help with my plantar fasciitis.  Cross your fingers that it works!

This is the running store that is putting on the Twilight 12k.  Luke asked a guy in the store why they did a 12k instead of a 10k...and he said they just wanted to do something different.  We support that! (...literally!)

We found the store downtown that sells Qiviut products.  Qiviut (pronounced 'kiv-ee-ute') is the downy soft under wool from the Arctic musk ox.  (And you can read more about it here...)

They don't sell the actual yarn there...just the products produced from remote Alaskan villages.  The scarves and things are really cool.  Each village has a different pattern in their scarves.  My favorite pattern was butterflies from Bethel. (...And here's a random fact for you-Bethel, Nome, and Kotzebue Alaska are in the same church stake as the ward we are in.  Crazy!)

We went to the mall and while we were there we saw Rita (a friend from our ward).  She told us about a cool thrift store that is a block or so south of the mall.  Of course we checked it out...  I thought they had great stuff.  (It was all girls stuff...not for guys.  But they have comfortable chairs for them to sit on...)

When we were walking back to the car we saw a really cool cloud/building combo.

It looks like the cloud is in the building!  Doesn't it?!?!?  We thought it was AWESOME!

And here at the house...we finally have the guest room ready-with pictures on the walls and everything!

Our very first visitors will be here in one month!  We're so excited!

And we explored behind our house a little.  This is what the back of our house looks like:

And our back yard looks a little like this:

And as for Star Wars day...  May the fourth be with you!  (hahaha!  Get it??)

Happy Friday!  And Happy Weekend too!