Visiters

We've been anxiously waiting for our friends, Tonya and Anita, to make it to the village to visit us and I think some of our friends were as anxious as we were.  Each time we went into the office yesterday afternoon Carol gave us the countdown to their arrival.  I enter the office: "You've got one hour and twenty minutes until they get here!" (spoken with a grin that would compete with any child waiting for their birthday party).  Mike enters the office:  "Aren't you excited?!  You've got one hour and eighteen minutes until they're here!"  Everyone at Smokey Bay Air could tell we were anxious as well by the multiple phone calls checking to see if they had arrived yet.  Their trip here, like all related to Alaska, sounded to be an adventure in itself.  They experienced a near miss with a deer and almost got run off the road on their way to catch their first plane.  But they made it there in one piece, survived their several flights (and the temporary loss of hearing that came with the flights), managed to avoid any run-ins with moose on the road from Anchorage, and had an excellent flight in the small plane from Homer despite the high winds - once they got to the right airport.  They'll only be here for a few days so Mike and I took the day off to enjoy our time together and are very much looking forward to it!