August 8th - major rain this afternoon. Let's play in the street pond.
Load the truck.
Travel prayer, we're driving to Glacier View to sleep tonight.
August 9th - Lincoln got to sleep on the love seat.
Dad and Mom and Meta slept on the hide-a-bed.
In the morning, Nick put on a cartoon for Meta so we could get a little extra sleep. Thanks!
Driving along the road to McCarthy, stopping for wiggle breaks. We're staying at the Behrend's property along Long Lake.
August 10th - Exploring Historic Kennecott Copper Mine - First we drove to McCarthy. The bridge to McCarthy is closed to non-local traffic, so we parked and then walked the quarter-mile to McCarthy.
The Kennecott Copper Mine is another 5 miles UP the road. There is a shuttle van that costs money for a round-trip ride to and from the mining town. We caught the shuttle and went to the historic mining town.
We took a guided tour of the mining town and then most of us hiked out to the Root Glacier. Grandma and Beth went back to the cars.
We caught the very last shuttle van down the road. Meta and Linc were sitting on my lap in a very full van. The road was newly graded, soft dirt, and a jogger was running along the uphill mountain side of the road. The driver gave her lots of room on the downhill side of the road and the downhill tires got off the road. The driver was unable to get back onto the road and the weight of the van tipped us all downhill and the van rolled completely over once and came to rest on it's wheels against some small trees.
Grandpa broke his ankle, Tia Kathleen broke a window with her butt, but we all survived a rollover in the shuttle van. Linc bumped his head and Meta wanted a bandaid for her finger, but we are blessed and not acutely injured.
Daddy, Mommy and Nick are uninjured. Auntie Beth and Grandma weren't in the van and missed this part of the adventure.
James and Nick stayed with Grandpa until they could get him extracted from the van and taken to a small airstrip in McCarthy. Kathleen, the kids and I, rode down in another shuttle van to find Grandma and Beth. Grandma was then connected to Grandpa and they both rode in an airplane to fly to a hospital in Anchorage.
Later, Meta and Linc played a bean bag toss game that Grandma brought. They both are acting normally and seem to have full range of motion.
Sleeping at Behrend's "guest room"
August 11th - snuggling Dad while we load the cars to drive back to Anchorage. Our plan to drive to Fairbanks/North Pole after exploring McCarthy has been changed so we can go support Grandma and Grandpa and get the rest of us checked out as well.
