Alaska: Butikofers Be Ridin' Dirty

On one of the last days we took an adventure to the Silt Flats that I talked about in the last post and got DIRTY!! It's this beautiful area about a mile from Aaron and Jill's home where a river meets with the ocean, and when the tide is out, what's left is all of this silt...which is like mud but more like quicksand and pudding. It's hard to describe unless you've been in it! So, Sam and Jill headed to Salvation Army and picked everyone out some fabulous clothes that we could just destroy! And destroy them we did, and had a grand old time doing it! Grandma and the wee babies looked on as everyone else sloshed, sank, fought, danced,threw around, and wallowed in the mud! Afterwards we had to hose off outside, because silt does some nasty things to pipes apparently, and Jess and I rushed home and grabbed the hose which had been sitting out in the sun and nabbed all the warm water..muahahahah!
It was such a fun day, one I will never forget! Maybe when we go back Cal will be able to experience it too instead of having to watch us have all the fun.


A very clean before shot. My aren't we all attractive??





Jess' shirt was by far my favorite! Shame he had to ruin it...
My sis-in-law Diane thought she was going home this clean....BUT Me, Mary, and Jill had other plans!
Me, Mary, and Jill doing an interpretive dance
Just lovin' life!

A chase began.....
...and a wresteling match..

....but Jess was persistent!!
.....and I ended up getting a silt facial :)
some of the ladies loungin'

A few but not all of us, an after shot!