A weekend in Homer and Kenai

We travelled to Kenai on Friday to pick up Steve to go to Homer. We left my car at the cabin and took Steve's truck and the camper to Homer for Jesse's swim meet. We had a great time and Jesse had a lot of fun. He swam 4 races and did well. He always swims against this very fast 8yr old boy from Soldotna. We thought he beat him in the 25 back because that is what the time clock told us but turns out he and Jesse had a "Phelps finish" and the older boy won. Jesse did make one YMCA regional time I was told so we are very proud. He has not even been on the team for a year.

We spent the rest of Saturday fishing in Homer and Lindsey practiced throwing rocks. Saturday night we headed back to Kenai and cleaned things up to prep for the drive back to Anchorage on Sunday.

Saturday night, I was in the cabin and heard Kenai (our dog) barking really loud outside. She NEVER barks like that so I went to see what was up. The kids were on the porch and Steve was just inside the camper. I looked around the corner of the porch to see Kenai squaring off with a cow moose. They were about 5 feet apart. I yelled for Steve and MOOSE! I was not worried about the moose hurting the kids or me..but stomping the dog. That moose would have won if that had occured. Kenai is wearing a training collar and thankfully came after only being calle twice. The moose hung out and we took some photos. Then later we noticed there were two. This was a mama. Thank goodnes her calf was not around when the dog decided to say hi!




Hanging out at the camper in Homer the night before the meet.






Playing with bendaroos at the swim meet!





Some shots of the swimming pool. Also, Steve who was HOT and trying to figure out how all this swim stuff works. This was a small meet..only 50 kids..so it went fast. I told Steve he needed to come to a big meet with a couple hundred plus kids!





Fishing at the end of the Homer Spit. Lindsey was having fun running away from the waves and finding rocks to throw.






Some pictures of the mama moose and the porch that the kids were on when it came to visit. It was just to the left of the porch photo on the side of the cabin.