Preparing To Go To Town

On the 30th I get to go to town for the first time in 6 months.  I am getting quite excited.  Town, for those of you that don't know, is Anchorage.  To get there I have to get on a plane and fly 1 1/2 hours.  It will be the first time in 6 months that I will have been in a grocery store or seen a busy street.  I have a car reserved and I drive a car about once a week here and it is to take the work truck up to the post office for the mail.  Total mileage 1.  I am going to a Natural Resource Training for two days and then presenting some of my work at a science symposium.  Scientists from around the state will be presenting the work they have been doing.  It should be quite interesting.  To make the trip extra special my husband is flying up from North Dakota to be here to support me.  The game plan is to attend the meetings during the day, explore Anchorage until it is too dark to see and then go shopping.

The first place I want to go is Dairy Queen for a pumpkin pie blizzard.  Not all of you may know what that is so I will describe it.  It is ice cream mixed with chopped of pieces of pumpkin pie topped with whip cream and sprinkled with nutmeg.  It is a holiday favorite of mine and since ice cream cost $14.00 a half gallon and I am too cheap to buy it.  I am looking forward to having one and savoring every delicious bite.

I am looking forward to walking through a grocery store especially the fresh produce section.  Seeing a real dairy section with a large selection of cheeses.  I am going to enjoy going to the fabric store, and a book store, and maybe even Best Buy.  I hear Taco Bells calling me and a McDonald's cheese burger sounds great.  All these places I haven't even seen a commercial for. 

Of course I am looking forward to seeing Anchorage.  I here the museums are great.  I want to walk the trails by the ocean and see what I can see.  Moose should be everywhere from what I hear so seeing one would be awesome even if it is not a Katmai moose.  There is a musk ox farm outside of town I might have to check out and I hear the views of Denali are great just outside of town.  All these things wait for me at the end of the week.  I can't wait.  What would you do if you were to go to town with me after six months in the bush?