The adventure continues!! (August20-21)

Yesterday we arrived in Anchorage.  The rain continued to follow us in our travels.  We decided to return the RV and take a more scenic route back to Fairbanks.  Jason called ahead to reserve a two room sweet for Aaron, Sarah, Adelaide, Aliza, Jason, Micah, Elijah, Madeline and I at the the Caribou Inn in Glennallen.   Living in an RV with 9 people can be a little tight.  We enjoyed our time in the RV, but we were all ready to have a little more room to work with especially while getting 5 children to bed.  Our drive towards Glennallen was beautiful.  We even took time to stop and walk up to a Glacier.  It was a very cool experience.  The boys even learned that Glacial silt mixed with mud and water make a type of quick sand, and you therefore have to be extremely careful when walking around a glacier.  

     We were all exhausted as we pulled in to Glennallen.  We were also relieved that we had reserved a room when we noticed that their sign read "No Vacancy."  Jason went in to get our room key while we waited in the car with the children.  When Jason returned from getting the key I could tell that something wasn't right.  Jason explained that a new worker had been working when he called and the hotel lost our reservation.  The good news was that there was one cabin available, it was a small dry cabin, (which means, no running water.)    We checked it out, and this is what we found.

 It was a very cute little cabin, but was really intended to house about 2 people.  It had the room you see in the above pictures as well as a loft with barely enough room to house two twin matresses.  We all decided that we were too exhausted to continue on, so Aaron and Sarah and their family took the main level with the pull out bed, and we took the upstairs.  It was incredibly tight.  Getting children to bed was even worse than trying to get children to bed in the RV.  But we all laughed about it.  And will never forget our SHORT night in the dry cabin.
     The boys enjoyed our stop in Glennallen due to the fact that our small cabin was directly accross a small dirt road from two young boys who had a tree house.  They invited Micah and Elijah to come and play.  Due to the fact that we could see them the whole time and they had just finished sitting for a very long time we agreed to let them go play.

The other exciting part about this particular cabin was the fact that it had an electric toilet.  An electric toilet that actually burns everything that is flushed into it.  Disgusting!