Day 15: Breakfast at Gwennie's, Jacket Fiasco Amplified, Dinner at Wendy's
Breakfast at Gwennie's
With a weird day in store for us, we decided to have a filling breakfast at Gwennie's to start things out. We had to return our rental car at 10am, so we made it to Gwennie's at 8:30am for breakfast. It was, once again, delicious! Mark had the reindeer sausage with eggs and potatoes, and I went with a delicious omelet with ham, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes and avocado in it, which was served with potatoes as well.
Jacket Fiasco, continued
The day in general, as I said before, was just weird, and we spent a lot of it waiting around. In an effort to get Mark's lost jacket back, we ended up needing to wait in our hotel room until around 3pm for a call from the charter bus to let us know they were at the airport. We munched on snacks, but weren't really hungry for lunch. When it got to be 2:30pm, we were getting a little concerned, so we started walking the 2 miles to the airport to make sure we were waiting there when the bus arrived. Of course, it never did, and when we called the hotel to make sure it got on the bus (this would be our 3rd conversation about this stupid jacket), they finally told us that they had forgotten to send it with the charter bus, and it was, indeed, still at the hotel. What a headache!! We finally convinced them to send the jacket in the mail, but there was 4 hours of our vacation we wouldn't get back.The Rest of the Evening
We ended up pretty tired from the whole fiasco with the jacket and crashed at the hotel for another hour or so before walking down to Wendy's to have some chili for dinner. I had been craving chili the last half of the trip, and sadly, it didn't squelch my hunger for it, as it wasn't nearly as good as my chili, but it was what it was. We watched TV the rest of the night and got to bed early.We wish we had a little more time to enjoy the sights in Anchorage, but it is what it is. It's tough to get around town without a car, and quite frankly, we were pretty wiped out from our previous 15 days. We'll just have to explore the city more the next time we're there.
Day 16: Heading Home
We were luckily able to sleep in a bit on our last morning in Alaska, as our flight wasn't until 11am. We checked out and took the airport shuttle from our hotel around 9am and got everything checked and in order once we arrived.
It was a little sobering as shortly after we arrived, they announced a moment of silence for the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, after which we watched some of the coverage from 10 years ago on the TVs while enjoying some breakfast at McDonald's.
We made it to our gate with an hour to spare and killed some time visiting with some guys from Minnesota heading back home after a big Alaskan hunting vacation. We all compared wildlife-sighting stories, and they told us about the big bull they got while they were up there. It was fun to reminisce about our trip with others who had also just experienced Alaska for the first (or second, or third) times while on our trip.
It was a little sobering as shortly after we arrived, they announced a moment of silence for the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, after which we watched some of the coverage from 10 years ago on the TVs while enjoying some breakfast at McDonald's.
We made it to our gate with an hour to spare and killed some time visiting with some guys from Minnesota heading back home after a big Alaskan hunting vacation. We all compared wildlife-sighting stories, and they told us about the big bull they got while they were up there. It was fun to reminisce about our trip with others who had also just experienced Alaska for the first (or second, or third) times while on our trip.
We had an excellent time on our Alaskan vacation and would love to go on a return trip at some point in the future. :) It helps when you have such a wonderful travel companion who tends to be on your same interest (and energy) level.
