Birthday/Election Night Recap

King Crab... it's what's for dinner.

Well at least it was what we had for dinner last night while we watched Survivor. Admittedly, it makes a better Survivor night meal when they're stranded on an island somewhere as opposed to sitting in Africa. But it was still tasty nonetheless!

Here are a few photos from Stephen's birthday celebration. He actually ended up opening his presents that morning before we all departed for our daytime destinations of work and school. One of his gifts was a gift card for Sportsman's Warehouse.

After work, we headed north to Wasilla as that SW is more convenient than the one in South Anchorage. We stopped at IHOP for a yummy birthday dinner. Also convenient, as it is across the street from Sportsman's Warehouse. It was at IHOP that we heard McCain had conceded and Obama was the new president.

We gobbled up our pancakes, eggs, and bacon and spent the next hour or so browsing the ice fishing gear at SW. Stephen loves to shop for that sort of thing. He got a 3-person ice shelter called the Eskimo QuickFish3. (It's the red thing in the sled.) He also got some little ice fishing poles, tackle, and a nice ice scoop. Alicia picked out a Disney Princess fishing pole. She's looking forward to catching some fish with Daddy.

The ice on the lakes is plenty thick enough. And they've just stocked nearby Mirror Lake with trout and salmon. So we're ready to go.

We're down to just under 8 hours of daylight a day. Sunrise is around 8:45 and sunset is around 4:40. So we'll either be fishing with a flashlight or on weekends...

When we returned home, we dove into the ice cream cake. There were 2 kinds of ice cream inside: mint chocolate chip and butter pecan. Afterwards, Stephen played with his new toys and we called it a happy birthday.