{"id":1179,"date":"2008-08-22T19:02:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T02:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2012-05-14T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T16:34:10","slug":"alaska-supper-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2008\/08\/alaska-supper-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska- supper (29)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had told Ray that we would meet for dessert at 7.<\/p>\n

At the time, I thought that we would be in our hotel and done taking a nap. I thought that we would have gotten up earlier and gone out to explore the town and have had dinner already.<\/p>\n

Things had not turned out the way I expected.<\/p>\n

I woke up about 6, and Chris was still fast asleep. I read some to let him keep sleeping. But I was concerned about being late. And we were supposed to eat dinner FIRST.<\/p>\n

But Chris was tired, and still sleeping.<\/p>\n

I woke him up at 6:30. It took a good long time to pry ourselves out of bed and get out to get over to the appointed meeting place:<\/p>\n

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This seemed like a cool place. Naturally, it wasn’t there when I lived there.<\/p>\n

Although the restaurant was new, the view across the highway was as familiar as the back of my hand:<\/p>\n

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I know those mountains. They are what mean mountain to me. I live next to mountains. This is what the mountains look like near me:
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They look like they belong in the desert. Because they do. Of course, in deep and rare winters, they have snow on them, and they look like real mountains then:<\/p>\n

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That photo is from deep January, and they never<\/em> look like that.<\/p>\n

The one thing Alaska is good at, that Wasilla is really good at, is mountains.
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But it was time for dinner.<\/p>\n

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