Our past week was pretty uneventful. The weather was kind of crummy - rainy, cold and cloudy. But I did paint the ugliness out of our 2nd bathroom, to a beautiful tan color and built a new piece of furniture for the bathroom. We were hoping that by the weekend, the weather would clear up just like it did the past weekend. But, not really. We spent the weekend running errands, as it seems rather never-ending lately. We bought new nightstands though, that was kind of exciting! We also went to a few local things, that was interesting.

On Friday night, while running errands, we finally buckled down and bought not only some fishing poles and gear, but also got our fishing licenses. Then on Saturday, we went to the "Only Fool's Run at Midnight" 5k race. Apparently it's just like Halloween, except instead of getting candy you run a 5k. So we went to the convention center that there was a pre-race party so we could see what it was all about. It was pretty entertaining and we will be participating in this next year - anyone want to join us? Some of my favorite costumes were the Alaskan Lady Gaga, Cookie Monster and his Cookie (another person), and Scooby Doo's gang. There's also a centipede branch, where you have to have a minimum of a few people and must be tied together in some way. Last year, a group of six guys dressed up as Alaskan Beer bottles and they were connected by the 6-pack container. It was pretty funny.

On Sunday, we felt we needed to get outside and do something. The weather was still cloudy and cold, but at least it wasn't raining. We decided to try out our new fishing poles and see what skills we had. We quickly learned that neither of us really knew what we were doing. Well, I knew absolutely nothing. Eric at least knew how to set up the line. We tried watching others to see what their techniques were. Just like every location, there are fishing rules that you need to abide by, or get your license taken away. One of them is you cannot use bait and so need to catch fish by lures or bobbers. It seemed that most people were using lures, but I tried a bobber while Eric tried a lure. We didn't catch anything, but I can proudly say that I'm more comfortable casting the line now. We were only out for about an hour and a half, it got too cold for me. We watched one guy catch about a 30lb. salmon, which took him about a solid 20 minutes to get out of the water. We also watched some other people catch smaller fish.. and then cut them up right on the rocks. While that was kind of gross, it was also kind of helpful because while I don't have any desire to clean a fish, neither of us would've known what to do with the fish if we had caught one. Now I think we slightly have a better grasp on it. The fun part of that day was that when the guys were gutting the fish, they left the guts on a rock and a handful of eagles instantly appeared. They started fighting each other for the meat, some were even grabbing it out of the talons of one eagle while they both were flying. It was entertaining!

After heading back home to warm up, we then headed to A Salmon-chanted Evening at the Thane Ore House. It was a local event to sponsor a local theatre, so the restaurant was putting on an all you can eat buffet, followed by a dessert auction - Eric's perfect night. Ha! The food was okay, but the location was beautiful. Technically, the restaurant is "out the road" and so it's away from all the tourists and had stunning views. They did, also, have an amazing beer-battered halibut - the only thing really worth going back for. The dessert auction was fun, but we didn't buy anything. Some people were paying $100 just for a pie! I'm going to see if next year maybe I can enter my carrot cake. :)

That's about it. Nothing too exciting. The house is getting more organized, but still not done. We're trying to finish filling out our claim form so that we can start getting our broken furniture fixed or replaced. Sorry for no pictures this time, I haven't taken any this week. I hope that next post I will put up pictures of our home, as we should be getting our coffee and end tables this week, so the house will look more 'done.'