Tidepooling and Dragons

Today was a great day. Started off with a wonderful time at church. We went to the Berean Baptist church here in Kodiak and it was great! The sermon was wonderful and I loved the music! They sing contemporary worship music and the church had about 150 people in attendance for the service. The guy we went with laughed at us when we said there were alot of people there. We met the pastor who was very nice and chatted with us for a bit. Then off to coffee and breakfast with friends. We got introduced to a wonderful little bakery with an amazing french chef. I am very excited to try the crepes.

After breakfast, we decided to drive around Kodiak and try to go tidepooling. We did not have a tidepooling book but got lucky and found out it was low tide. I think people get that I am a tourist because I was walking around in my North Face down jacket because the wind just rips through you here. No one wears down jackets here for obvious reasons that the down will get ruined in the rain. Thankfully though, no rain today. It was SO much fun checking out the tidepools. I found out I still had some knowledge of sea life from my growing up in CA because we found sea anenomes and a hermit crab. Jonathan touched the sea anenome and said "It tickled my finger!" He thought they were really cool. I told him he should pick up the hermit crab but I failed to mention that he should pick it up by the shell. He didn't get pinched but wasn't pleased that I did not mention that important fact about hermit crabs. We found the best beach to go tidepooling in so we think that beach will be a favorite spot when we have visitors.










After tidepooling, we drove around and checked out some more beaches. Then came dinner. Our neighbor works at the restaurant in the Best Western tending bar so we deicded to check it out. I had the best crab I have ever eaten! It puts Louie's Down Under in Bozeman to shame! The crab legs were humongous! (And Delicious!)




After dinner, we met a friend and his roomate down at the local movie theater to watch "How to Train Your Dragon." The movies here are SO cheap! I was shocked that the rate was $5.50 per person!!! Everyone laughed at me but I kept telling them that it was $9.00 per person in Bozeman and that doesn't include the popcorn! The movie theater shows one movie and cycles the movies every two weeks. We were told that going to movies are a highlight in winter when the town dies down.

Tomorrow we are going to get our car registered. Jonathan is very excited about this because apparently the registration price is alot cheaper than MT. It's funny what gets us excited: movie prices and car registration. I also included a picture of the police station that they are building here in Kodiak. It should be finished soon and is state of the art. Hope you all are doing well!