On the move

I'm selling one of the Cedar Springs condos to help pay for the Tallahassee house. Cathy and I went over to paint the door frame.

We had a new door put in and it looks great.

I listed it yesterday and have had two full price offers already. We will choose an offer on Tuesday.

The Tallhassee house is moving along.

We plan to move classrooms in July because our lease is up and we want something less expensive. I started moving out a bunch of the junk we have in the classroom.

 

And he's off

I was really honored to be asked to be one of two people who went to tell Wesley he was being adopted. When we told him it was Joy he said "that's perfect." He started to get really stressed after we told him and said "I want to go with her" as in me. We went to the aquarium at the mall and then out to eat so he had some time to process.

Joy came and I picked her up at the airport. She stayed with us until the night before she left when she had Wesley. The last night she spent at her old youth pastor from Chicago's house. This poem was written last week which shows we never resolved his food insecurity.

Joy getting her mom on.

They are in Maryland and according to my daily reports from Joy are doing great. I've talked to Wesley a couple times as well and he says he is happy. He said "you can't make me go back to Utah."

 

Alaska

 

Mao Yu goes back to China June 7th. For the three years she has lived with us she has wanted to go to Alaska. Specifically to see the Northern Lights. The day after we got back to Florida I saw round trip, non stop Delta flights to Fairbanks Alaska for $118. I asked Mao Yu if she wanted to go knowing that there was very little chance we would see the Northern lights.

I'm not going to lie, 3 days in Fairbanks Alaska in May felt like 10 days. It was light 20 hours a day. It was snowy in the mountains and muddy everywhere else. Not enough snow to ski, too much snow to ATV or kayak. There was literally nothing to do. We stayed one night in Fairbanks and two nights at Chena Hot Springs.

We took a ride in a jeep with a bunch of sled dogs running ahead of us.

We went to an ice museum

We hiked, and hiked.

Sean climbed on a dragon.

We stopped at Walmart and bought a bunch of food because the resort only had one place to eat with mixed reviews. We ate there once and it was over priced and mediocre but we had a great room and lots of food. The TV had 5 channels and we had no phone or internet. Sean was losing his mind!

We went to North Pole Alaska

The museum of the North was pretty cool. I was not surprised to learn how awful the Native Alaskans were treated.

No Northern Lights but we've been to Alaska.

Alaska is pretty.

When I've gone on cruises I've always disliked how little time in the ports but I honestly think six hours in any Alaskan port would be sufficient. I'm glad I went and I would go on a cruise and see the ice bergs and scenery but that's it. I can take Alaska off my bucket list. Don stayed home and worked!