Once upon a time...

So here we are in Juneau. Who would have thought that after all this time, we still know how to type? We've had plenty of adventures, lots of rain, we've worked a lot, and it has rained a lot. We've seen bears, whales, and rain. All in all, we're having a pretty good time.

One of our favorite places we've been while in Juneau is the Mendenhall Glacier (the big chunk of ice in the background). The day we took this picture was one of the sunniest we've seen, not that that's hard to do, and we even got a little red in the face that day. The glacier is frequented by black bears, and we were lucky enough to wrestle some one night.
The picture above is us enjoying fireworks on the 4th of July. They do the fireworks show at midnight, because that's the only time it's dark enough to do them. They shoot the fireworks off of a boat in the channel, so it was really pretty. There's also huge mountain ranges on either side of the channel, so it sounds like someone is just firing off canons. They even had a few that didn't really put off any light, but they made a huge boom.
Last of all, this is the view from our apartment. We live in a tiny, one-bedroom apartment on the eleventh floor overlooking the Gastineau Channel. The view is great, it's not very often that you look out the window and don't see a few cruise ships in port. Sadly, however, this view is very different from our current view. We have been blessed with 28 straight days of rain. That's right, not one of those days did the sun shine for more than about ten minutes. We're still having a blast though, and more importantly for those of you who have begun to wonder, we're still alive.

We're alive...

That's all.



Happy Birthday Ashley!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome To Juneau

We arrived in Juneau last night at around 10:00. Now, 12 hours later, we're rolling out of bed. We just thought we'd share this picture from our window in our hotel room. We don't have an apartment yet, so they're putting us up in a hotel for these first few days. We're going to take in the sights today, and then we'll start work tomorrow.

Breakin' Records

We, the Ford family, are breakin all sorts of records these days. The one we would like to highlight at this time is 2 posts in 24 hours. Now we know it's not much, but we're pretty happy about it. This post is actually dedicated to a few different people. First and foremost, I (Jon) would like to dedicate this post to the Andersons who made this all possible (you know who you are). Also, if anyone sees this who knows someone who has a similar addiction, my heart goes out to you. Secondly, Ashley would like to dedicate this to Tofu lovers everywhere.

Juneau Where We Are Going?

As many of you already know, we recently got offered an internship in Juneau, Alaska. After giving it some thought, we accepted the opportunity. We figure that this is the only time we'll be able to just drop everything and head off on an adventure, given the fact that I'll be a college grad come December, so in 18 days we'll be boarding a plane for Alaska. For those of you who are curious about what we'll be doing, please continue reading. For those of you who aren't, please scroll down, click on the post a comment link, and dazzle us with your wit.

The internship is with a company called Del Sol. Their products all change colors when exposed to the sun. As such, their stores are located in areas that are typically visited by tourists. Juneau happens to be a popular destination in the Alaskan cruise industry. Our main responsibility will just be working in the store in Juneau. We're pretty excited about this, and we imagine that we will meet our fair share of crazies, and be able to tell lots of interesting stories. In the event that we can't, we'll simply make things up and see how gullible our family and friends are. Aside from the retailing, the managers do a lot of marketing with the cruise ships, and I hope to be able to help out in this area.

That's about all we know about the internship at this point, so we hope you'll be excited for us and wish us luck.

Ahhhhhh....Memories

In honor of Kurt and Bonnie's recent wed, I thought that I would share with everyone some of the more memorable moments from their blissful day. So please, enjoy.

Here is Ashley and a relative, who's identity has been hidden for MY protection,
outside the Temple (sorry Ash)

Becca and Derek have apparently been letting James experiment with drugs

Shawn - strikin a pose
Bart - trying...

Young Love???

I think they saw something exciting...or scary?

And of course...


The End

Thank you Mr. President

We'll admit, before blogging we had a hunch that people love our witty humor, and for the most part just can't get enough of us. Now that we've published our first post, that hunch has been confirmed. We just had no idea that people would be begging us to post again. So without further ado, here is a recount of our latest adventure...

In order to properly pay tribute to our past presidents, we hopped in the car with Julie and headed to the South to visit our Spanish brother San Jorge (you might know him better as St. George). We hiked, we ate, we watched movies, and we just sat around. It was as if our former president's said, "No, thank you for all you've done. We really appreciate it." It sure was nice of them. It really helped us to appreciate the true beauty of a 3-day weekend.












You'll notice that the picture of Ashley and Julie doesn't have a caption, but if it did, it would read:




Tricks that we can do and James can't

(Sorry Bec)

...so I guess it does have a caption.