Last week, we saw lots of moose. First, while Ken was off fishing, a moose cow with 2 calves showed up in the lily pads across the road from the RV park. Suzie went out and photoed them grazing in the water’s edge and as they crossed the road and played in the ditch very close to us. Bob called me out to watch them also.

A few days later, Bob and Suzie hosted a fish fry of halibut they had caught the day before, and while we were relaxing in their RV after, I saw a moose swimming across the lake. Suzie jumped out with her camera and took a few pictures of her (this must have been another moose cow, because there was no sign of calves).

 Suzie and I took a day to explore lots of little shops in Soldotna while traveling the Kenai River Quilt Tour.  We picked up a “passport” card with locations and checkboxes for the 15 shops that displayed the quilts for the tour. The quilts were made by the local quilt guild, and displayed in various shops. Suzie and I managed to get to 10 shops. The neat thing was that we would not have visited any of these shops without the quilts on tour. There were boutiques and gift stores, but also a café, framing shop, bookstore, greenhouse, plus the visitor’s center and fabric shop. We only needed to go to 12 of the 15 locations, but 4 shops were not open on the day we tried to complete the tour (the tour runs through July, so there wasn’t a rush.)

Friends (Doug and Rose) from Wisconsin arrived at the Kasilof RV Park early last week, and have been spending time with us. Ken and Doug have been going fishing, and Rose and I have been shopping and browsing the local stores (including the marvelous Kenai Fabric Center). Rose helped me finish off the quilt tour, and we went to the Senior Center in Sterling (with friends Donna and Yolanda) for the "Christmas in July" bazaar. One of the crafters tanned salmon skin and produced beautiful items with the salmon leather (billfolds, key rings, jewelry, coin purses, etc.) I bought Ken a nice key ring for his birthday. Then we had lunch with Donna at the café that was on the quilt tour. Great place for lunch in Soldotna.

We were very busy all last week, and we were visiting with friends or too tired to update the blog at night. So this was a quick catch-up of all our activities.