day 14

this morning i woke up rather early by a phone call from andrew--the guy from tuscan arizona i met the night before. we decided we were going to go hiking on perseverance trail. we left about 10 got to the parking lot and started hiking. since i had yet to go up to the top of a mountain i thought it would be cool to go up mt juneau. boy..... that was a long trek. i have no idea wht the elevation change was but it was a two hour hike UP A MOUNTAIN! lol there were definately some straight up parts too. we climbed across some ice too and walked across a waterfall. it was pretty awesome. about 3/4 of the way up about a quarter mile and 600 feet from the top we were like wow this is pretty sweet so we took a rest. an older guy and his teenage son got to us and ewre you ... you jsut got over the toughest part you have to make it the rest of the way up.. so we were like.. okay lets go. we got up to the top and it was ABSOLUTELY gorgeous!!! omg! you could see all around it was pretty sweet. then after about a half hour on top of the mountain andrew and i decided we should start the trek back down the mountain. it was alot of work to get up the mountain let alone getting down! whoa!! the really steep parts that were mud slicked i ended up sliding down with my butt like two inches from the ground.. that way if i actually would have fallen it wouldnt of hurt so bad. it took 2 hours to get downt he mountain and my knees were KILLING me!! after that we walked the quarter mile back to the car and headed off to the alaskan brewery for a tour. the brewery was founded in 1986 and has expanded immensely and is looking at selling to minnesota within the next year. then andrew dropped me off at my house so i could shower before my friend tony that i met over the weekend came over and taught me how to make sushi. we made california rolls and they were phenomenal!! i was starving too because i only had a bowl of cereal plus 2 granola bars up/down the mountain. and that was my sunday!! :-)