My sister Karen and hubby John came up to visit last week, leaving this early am.   Now is the first spare second I have had to blog, so thought I would post some photos from this past week.

Karen, John and kids:

We went camping at the Methodist camp for 2 nights.  It was great, we stayed in the lodge, complete with industrial kitchen, huge dining area, and fireplace.   The mosquitos, however, were the worst I've ever seen since being here in Alaska.  Tristan killed so many he got a permanent tatoo:

We went hiking one morning:

John went hiking later by himself and saw a porcupine and some bear prints.   After camping we spent Friday out the road at Eagle Beach.  Here is John and kids playing on a sandbar, with the Chilkats in the distance.   We saw lots of eagles and several Canada geese at the beach.

Saturday we went fishing with no luck :(, and Sunday we went up on the tram after church.  Chase and Summer got to see SNOW and have a little snow ball fight!

Afterwards, we stopped at the glacier.  I stayed with sleeping children in the van, while Karen and John saw the glacier.... and a bear cub in a tree:

Then on Monday, Karen and John went on a whale watching cruise while I watched all the kids.   We went to the new playground in town:

Meanwhile, K&J saw sea lions, eagles, and lots of humpback whales on their cruise.   They even got to see a pod of humpbacks bubble net feeding :

The boys had a great time playing with their cousins, and it was so nice to visit my sister Karen after not seeing her for almost 2 years!   We even had great weather the entire week!  Praise God!