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Well I made it to Seward, again! For those that may not know I was offered a job at the Alaska SeaLife Center working in the Aquariums department doing sort of what my internship was this summer. And I took the job!! So I am now an Aquarist I (entry level aquarist) I'm so pumped. Who'd have thought that I would have a real job so soon? I was fully planning on doing the post-college flail for at least a few months.

The work will be extra hard for a while because Seward had some huge flooding a couple of weeks ago so the center has some serious cleaning up to do but I have full confidence that the tanks and animals will be in top shape very soon, but it will take a lot of very hard work to get there. On top of a full time job I still have to finish school, which includes a big research paper on a restoration project, and also a big paper about my internship this summer. So after about 3 months of writing and researching and working I will have a college degree and a real job. Life seems to be falling into place just nicely.

I will be up here for a year and I wanted my car here so I can get out of town when it gets too small, so I convinced one of my best buds to drive up to Alaska with me. The ultimate road trip!! I left form Seattle on the 29th of September and picked her up from Surrey, BC on the 30th and the driving began. We drove about 400 miles a day, sometimes more and camped our way up through BC, Yukon, and Alaska. After 8 days of driving, 2,831 miles, seemingly infinite stops for gas, two border crossings, tons of wildlife, a broken tent, sun, rain, snow and hotsprings we arrived in Seward on a beautiful sunny evening. It couldn't have gone more smoothly my car is still in one piece and I start work on Monday.

I shot film for the whole trip cause my digital camera was out of batteries and we had no way to charge it in the northern interior of BC/Yukon, so I dont have a lot of photos but here are some from the last bit of the summer internship and one or two from the trip up here. Enjoy!