Last night Trish finished making the wall hangings for the Junior Ranger badges and patches the kids have earned at the National Parks, Monuments, Historic Sites, and Wildlife Preserves we’ve visited:

The local chamber of commerce visitor center allows kids to check out fishing gear, so M checked out a pole and I fished with my own pole:

Most of the other folks fishing here took it quite a bit more seriously than we did:

The Red Salmon run hasn’t hit full swing yet, and neither of us caught anything, but we still had a nice time on this beautiful day on the river:

Speaking of full swing, we next drove North ten miles to Kenai where we surprised the kids with attending a baseball game, a family first!  It was the Kenai Peninsula Oilers versus the Anchorage Bucs.  These teams are made up of college baseball players from all over the US who come to play in the Alaska League for the summer:

M had a fantastic time and even managed to chase down and keep a foul ball! The rest of us had a good time too:

M built a lego pedestal for his caught ball:

Tonight we are overnighting at the Walmart of Kenai.  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.