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My friend Chris had an interview today and came by afterward, look how sharp he looks!

A Halloween Photobooth

Boo!

   Here are the photobooth pictures from my Halloween party, I did a black backdrop using a tablecloth roll I got from Party City, I hung it in two rows along my wall of choice and then I taped on webbing all over it. Let's just say drunk people lean way too close to the backdrop and webs get caught on their clothes! So watch out for that!

   These first pictures are from my mini mug shot photobooth I had on a wall in the kitchen. That was mostly for people to take themselves though! But I grabbed a few of myself and friends, or if someone asked me to snap it.

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- Christina

Perfect

Got to put out our souvenir and our frame we got on the ship. My shutterfly prints finally came in! So I got to set it up nicely on the mantel! Love it!

Big E

   It's that time of year again! Fair season! And my number one fair I go to every year is the Big E. Which many of New Englanders have heard of! It is the best and biggest fair, with tons of food which is the highlight for everyone.

I Every year I get apple crisp from one of the state building, usually Vermont. Sean get a baked potato not from the Maine building, which everyone goes to and has the biggest line but the hidden one right between two of the building, it's massive and way better! Shh, don't tell the secret! Hehe. This year we attended the event with our good friends, Nick and Aprylle. We waited in traffic for over 2 hours! It was ridiculous. As it is every year. But always worth the wait. It was so slow that Appy got out of the car went into a convenience store then caught back up to us only like 6 spots up from where we were. Too funny. We found a good spot to park, aka people's home who charge like $5 instead of whatever the charge at the actually fairgrounds. It not even that long of a walk. I laugh when people complain "ohh it's too far, we need to park there!" Like umm, don't you realize this fair is crazy big and you walk around it for hours! Like that adds up to miles, so I think you can walk for 10 minutes to get there. Oh well, more room for us to park!

They have bands and music all over to enjoy, a car show each year with vintage cars and trucks. Sean always gets bear from the houses, usually all from the state's local breweries. We go into all the expo building to see the animals and all the stuff people sell. We got to see a mama pig and her little piglets, it was so friggin' cute! I like, couldn't handle it! Though I was getting kind of pissed off at these two little girls who kept petting the mom when she was near the fence. Um no. It says do not pet right there! Way to go mom, control your kids! This mama pig is exhausted, keep their grimy hands off the pig! ANyway, one little pig that is on top of the other ones, can you see it? Yeah that is the pig version of our Abby. There is a photo Sean got of Abby as a baby with her mom, she was the little round pup on top of the puppy pile trying to feed from her mom. Haha! Last year we saw a calf licking this spot on the wall, we instantly were like that's the cow Abba,

   We go into the horse arena where they do the horse shows and judging, we missed the fun riding competition but we sat in there and got to see the horses being judge, it's like the thanksgiving dog show you see on tv every year. My favorite horse was this one that looked like it had gotten baby powder all of it. It was gorgeous!

   Next we went to my favorite thing to do at the Big E. The ferris wheel! Every year Sean and I have gone we've taken the same two photos on it. It's our little tradition, I know... so adorable. Haha!

   Above is our first year together there, the second was 2 years ago, and unfortunately the 3rd one we didn't go at the same time because I was sick when he went and I went when I was better with my sister. So sad! But this year photo came out wonderful, definitely a framer!

   We had a wonderful time and even stayed till it was dark so we got to see everything lit up before we left. 

Hope you get a chance to attend this year and if you're not from New England you should come just for this!

Love always, Christina

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Alaska: Day Five

Skagway!

Entering Skagway port

 
   I love love love this town. Oh so much! It was my favorite place we stopped at the whole trip! We not only saw a cool old western feel building. This was our only cruise expedition. To Klondike Summit. We did 8:30am so we could relax the rest of the day. We seriously made the right choice. It was only $40. So cheap and so worth it. I highly recommend it to everyone!

The bus only had 12 passengers on it, so it was nice and small. The bus was tiny with giant windows. Pete was our tour guide, he's been doing this for years and really enjoys it. He's probably the best tour guide I've ever met. He knew so much and told stories instead of just facts. All about the gold mining town and the people that were there. He even enthusiastically recited this poem which was really good and fun to hear. Very entertaining man with good jokes to share. He made stops along the road that basically follows the same path as the White Pass train and we actually get to get out of the bus and take pictures. On the train it cost $$$ a lot of money and is 3 hours and doesn't stop. Sounds pretty boring if you ask me. Ours was an hour and a half. Short and sweet. We had a gorgeous day. First day I took off my jacket. He even went farther then he has all cruise season because we could actually see the mountains that when it's cloudy you can't see anything. He said he was having more than he was having the weeks prior! We can see how clear the windows are with this picture below!, just gorgeous! Like for real!

 

Okay here are the pictures from the ride!

   Talk about amazing!!! After the ride, Pete dropped us off right in town. Barely any cars drove through and the sun was shinning and their backdrop was these giant green mountains. The sky was so clear it was as if we were looking inside a national geographic professional photo! The kind of view you can't imagine it's really right there in front of you. The people were walking along the streets, all with smiles among their faces and laughing people just enjoying this quaint little town. We first headed to a bar that has their own beer they brew and the guys got this shots. They very much enjoyed them. And became a bit drunk, haha!

   We then headed down the main street and saw this small building with a replica of a old timey 1880's bar, which had fake men drinking and old beer bottles and cigars. Along with some information about it. We also know this town was not only known for mining but it's brothels! So we posed like women of the red light district down one of the ally's which actually had a "House Of Negotiable Affection"... so if you're into that, lol. It was necessary, don't judge! We went to an antique store with tons of stuff from back then and then we got some local homemade ice cream. It was delicious! You for sure know that I got peanut butter cup! It's my favsies! Stopped into some little shops. I met a dog that was so adorable, just laying next to his owners store. Remember to ask before you pet someone's dog. It's just common sense! Thankfully he said go right ahead! Shadow really made me miss my pup even more! Though petting him would get me through the rest of the cruise. They had this cute mural you could pose infront of with a little donation box for the local business, so we did goofy poses. Tom's was hilarious getting attacked by the bead, I just fed it, haha. I'm boring clearly. There also was this

They had this cool historical building which is featured below (the bottom two) In the inside it had old photographs and a lot of information with old mining tools and displays. The building was the original from the 1880's when it was first built, over the years most of the building changed the front designs. Then down on of the alleys it lead to an original home and log cabin. The did a replica on the inside of the original homeowners using old photographs. They did a really good job, and the cabin was beautiful and thankfully a tour group was coming up and the guy was oh you can stay and take a peek inside, so wwe totally did that for free, haha!

When we were heading back, we noticed some people going down this other way through a little path instead of going along the street. I'm so glad we noticed because we went on a bridge and saw salmon! It was spawning season so all the fish are swimming up stream, fighting the current. Saddly there were many dead fish, and the some fish who were weak and bruised. But we did follow it and saw some ones that were almost at the end toward the pond area. Alaska is known for salmon so it neat to see it in action! Okay I hope this video works for you. I'm not that good at them, haha!

It was a great day and I will always remember Alaska and all the amazing views and experiences we had! If you ever get an opportunity to go, GO.
- Christina

Alaska: Day One And Two
Alaska: Day Three
Alaska: Day Four