Today was a leisure day. I made breakfast and did all the laundry. After lunch we went to the University of Alaska Museum of the North. The architecture is an amazingly beautiful white building high on a hill overlooking the city. The main level gives the visitor an introduction to this vast and diverse state. Exhibits focus on the culture, wildlife, geography, paleontology of each of Alaska's five major geographic regions. The Blue Babe caught my attention. It is the world's only mummified Ice Age steppe bison. We saw a 30 minute movie on what it is like to live in the area in the winter where the temp can go -75degrees. They have a coffee toss when the weather is -35. The coffee freezes before it touches the ground.
The day ended with Jim & Dixie after they called saying the wine was ready for us.
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