Medieval Feast

Emma and her friends, Spencer and Andrea.

Paul had a lot of fun building model castles!

To set up for the feast, we made lots of banners and hung them on the walls of our house.

My family has been studying the Middle Ages, so we decided to host a Medieval feast with our good friends who moved to Ketchikan last summer. Our friends have a little baby, Meredith, the same age as Samuel, so we named them, Lord Samuel and Lady Meredith. They were so cute sitting in their thrones! (highchairs)

Baby Joy!

Baby Samuel is such a joy to the family! Sometimes he can be fussy, but is usually pretty happy. He is very fun to take pictures of and will often start smiling when I get out the camera. Life would be quite boring without him!

Wrangell

When we first got to Wrangell, a large crane pulled the boat out of the water and set it on dry land so the workers in Wrangell could work on the bottom of the boat.

We continued to live on the boat, even though the boat was on the land. This meant that we had to climb up a ladder about 30 feet to get to our boat!

Joanna and the baby. You can see part of the boat harbor in the background.

Carrie took this picture from the boat dock and I thought it looked too nice to leave out of this blog!

John is pushing the baby in a cart at the laundromat.

While we were in Wrangell, my family went on lots of walks. Mom fell in love with the town. Wrangell is a very small town and the people there were very friendly to us. We spent a lot of time at the library and even visited the swimming pool, some gift shops and a museum. On Sunday we went to a Baptist church and met lots of nice people. We all had a good trip, but were very glad to be on our way home after a week of living on the boat 30 feet in the air!

Beautiful Southeast Alaska...

These were some beauitful scenery photos taken from our boat on our way to Wrangell. Dad needed some work done on the bottom of one of his large 75-foot fishing tenders (the Roedda), so we all went with him and took a family trip. The first day of traveling was beautiful! It took us a day and a night to get to Wrangell from Ketchikan. On the boat ride we worked on our school and played games.