3rd September 2007

Day tripper, yeah

posted in Alaska, OmegaDotter |

Harrumph.  I think I’m going to give up; the above photo was gorgeous in its full-size version, but when I crop it and make it smaller and fewer dpi, I get those horrid pixelating effects.  Argh.

We went on a day trip yesterday to escape from the Shoebox for a while.  We saw glaciers, an iceberg in a glacial lake (above), went through a long one-lane tunnel that is also shared by a train, watched the ferry steam out of the dock, wandered off through the mountains to a place called Hope, and returned home at 10 p.m., with the dotter sleeping soundly enough that I could carry her in and dump her into her little bed without a peep from the child.

It was truly a glorious day.

The apex, the pinnacle for the dotter, was when we were crawling around a little stream that smelled of rotting salmon:

“EWWWWW!  Mommy!  There’s a dead salmon!  EWWWWWW!”

Followed immediately by:

“Let’s find more!”

Then she spent the trip back home drawing dead salmon and asking me to draw the bones.  I told her she was a morbid child.  She giggled.

There’s nothing quite like getting a (quite elaborate) picture of a dead salmon with “I Mommy” written on it to warm the cockles of your heart.

But when we woke up in the morning, we were still in the Shoebox, not magically transported to the new house.  Sigh.  Mommy had a bad day as a result and was depressed and snarky.

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There are currently 9 responses to “Day tripper, yeah”

  1. 1 On September 3rd, 2007, Johnny said:

    What?! You can find your dinner laying right there in the stream ready for you?

    Pretty good fake pictures. Makes us believe your really in Alaska!

  2. 2 On September 3rd, 2007, omegamom said:

    Ewwww, Johnny! No, no, NO, you wouldn’t want to *EAT* these dead salmon! They were rotting and stinky and gross! EWWWWWW! (Dude. You wouldn’t believe the salmon up here. They’re in every damned stream you come near. You can reach in and pick the stupid critters up. It’s like…like…like shooting fish in a barrel.)

  3. 3 On September 4th, 2007, Julie Pippert said:

    Do you just spend every day looking around and sighing?

  4. 4 On September 4th, 2007, sheoflittlebrain said:

    Thanks for sharing your idyllic day, omegamom. Your pix are beautiful…sigh..and an original drawing of a dead salmon too.. Lovely!

  5. 5 On September 4th, 2007, SBird said:

    Don’t worry about the pixels–the gorgeousness comes through loud and clear…!!!

  6. 6 On September 4th, 2007, Maia said:

    I thought that I lived in the most beautiful place in the world but… Those pictures are breathtaking!

    And you have rotten fish! How lucky can one girl get?

  7. 7 On September 4th, 2007, GrannyJ said:

    Breathtaking scenery! Breathtaking dead salmon, too…

  8. 8 On September 4th, 2007, carosgram said:

    With those wonderful dead fish all you need is a dog to roll around in them and bring that lovely odor home with you. LOL

  9. 9 On September 4th, 2007, omegamom said:

    Julie–Actually, no, I don’t spend all my time just looking around and sighing; there’s a reason this was a day trip! Our neighborhood doesn’t have those splendid pointy mountains and glaciers, just lots of hills and some smaller, more rounded mountains. So we have to travel a little bit (but not very far at all!) to see the more splendid scenery.

    SheOfLittleBrain–I am most fond of the dead salmon portrait!

    SBird–I’m glad the gorgeousness comes through. But my new digicam is frustrating the heck out of me; my old one allowed me to crop and resize without that pixelating thing going on, and I can’t figure out how to do it in this new cmaera. Bah.

    Maia–The dead salmon amused us no end.

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