First Few Days

So today is my third day in Denali so far. Our shuttle arrived the first day around 1:30, so I guess technically it's been 2 and a half....whatever. It's been busy. I'm having a really hard time already keeping track of the days- both knowing what day it is, and what time of day it is. The weirdest part so far is the amount of time that the sun is in the sky. It never gets completely dark, and so far during the hours that I'm awake the sun has been up the entire time. So when I go to bed and it's still light outside and wake up with it still being light outside, I don't always register that it's the next day. It's like I've been stuck on it being Tuesday all week. (My own personal Groundhog Day...except not really).

I've been doing a lot though. Went to the dinner theater called Cabin Night the first night. Went rafting yesterday morning (which was amazing). I met a couple on the same raft who was from Newport Beach and used to live in Tustin. So that was really cool. We were able to do the rafting for free so I'm thinking I should just make it a daily thing...haha, I don't see why more of the employees aren't jumping on this. Rafting every morning seems amazing to me.

I also had my first day of work yesterday. I like my coworkers and the job seems like it will be simple enough. The store is just like any food mart you would go in at any gas station. So just picture that and you've got it. (Any B&Bers reading this are extremely familiar with gas station food marts...you guys know what's up) And ours is actually a really nice one too. We get a lot of people coming in because it's amidst a bunch of shops and gift shops and restaurants.

I went hiking this morning up a mountain near where we live called Sugar Loaf. (I need to look up how it got it's name...on the way down I was getting really hungry and even saying the name made me hungrier) I'll try to upload my pictures to my computer soon so I can post some of the views we saw today. They're amazing, and we actually were high enough so we could see Mount McKinley in the distance, so that was awesome.

So far so good! I'm still alive and after today I'll be working a lot more so won't have as much free time. Thanks for reading and hope you're all doing well!