House Hunting!

Day 2 of Juneau is house-hunting day. I'm still super sick and was really hoping I'd be better by today, but let's see how it goes. We've been in contact with our realtor, Marty, for about a month now and are excited to meet him. For some reason he keeps calling Eric, Greg. It's now an inside joke between us, but we still don't know where it originated. Anyways, Marty was gracious enough to also be our tour guide for the morning. While driving around, he explained the different areas to live in, showed us Mendenhall Glacier, shopping malls, etc. We visited about 8 places and really liked 2 of them. We'll look at more tomorrow, so we're still keeping an open mind. However, we really like those 2.

After our mini-tour and house hunting, we set up a game plan for tomorrow, then headed back to the hotel for me to rest. I was feeling a little better than the day before, but still pretty terrible. We didn't do much else today, but rest and research what grocery stores we have. We went to Costco, which is a mini-Costco - not nearly as big as the ones we're used to back home. It's kind of funny walking up to how small it is, but it seems to have just about everything we would need. Maybe a slightly limited version, but not too bad. We also went to Walmart. Through our research before coming out here, we were told that food would all be more expensive since everything was shipped up here. We wanted to do our research while up here to see how much we needed to stock up on canned goods before we left Chicago. :) Grocery prices aren't that much higher than our prices back home. However, when Eric first saw how much beef cost in the grocery store he turned around and said "We're not eating cow anymore." But at Costco the prices seem to be pretty much on par with what we're used to. Dairy isn't even as bad as we thought. Nor is gas - cheaper than Chicago so we can't complain. :)

Other notes, we've seen about 10 bald eagles already! And an aura rainbow - where the rainbow circles the sun. That was pretty awesome. I keep telling Eric I don't feel like I'm in Alaska, but everywhere you turn is a different snow-capped mountain so I don't really know why. It is absolutely gorgeous here. Eric keeps saying how he wants to climb to the top of all these mountains, or at least hike on all of them, and my response is "Bring me to a couch." Today was also a beautiful sunny and clear day. We are convinced that today will be the nicest on our trip. I can't really say that I like it just yet, because of how terrible I feel. But I could definitely see myself liking it more. :)