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Well, downtown Anchorage wasn’t that much fun yesterday. The museum of Alaskan history + art is well worth visiting, but other than that it was quite limited in terms of things to do. The Imaginarium is touted as being very good, though it was full of kids and mainly aimed at them. I suppose if we hadn’t done a flightseeing tour the day before, the Alaskan Experience Center showing a 45 minute film of slide snap-shots taken from the air over Alaska would have been worth visiting.

Quite sad to have left Alaska as it really has been wonderful. Although I’ve got over a week yet before coming home, Minnesota + Winnipeg tomorrow evening aren’t really going to match up, but at least this week should be more relaxing. Taking off last night made it my 9th flight in 9 days and have now travelled something like 12,000 miles in total so far!

So, after a slightly delayed flight out of Anchorage last night, we got into quite bad snow storms in Minneapolis early this morning. As the rental car assigned to us hadn’t been returned we got a free upgrade - a Pontiac G-series with a V6 engine. Very tasty! A long drive up to Halstad was uneventful, and now that we’ve got things cleared for heading up to Winnipeg tomorrow (since Kat forgot her passport…) we’re good to go!

We’ve got ice hockey late tomorrow afternoon and then trying to find something fun for the New Year’s eve celebrations. Couldn’t find much special online, so will probably just see what bars are open and any events the hotel knows of that are arranged. Hope everyone else enjoys the celebrations and doesn’t get too rowdy!