Seward: the Land of Glaciers, Rain Jackets, and Ocean

Open the flood gates, here comes the Seward series! The big news of the weekend is that my dear, old friend Kathleen Phelps came to visit. Now if you don't know who she is, no worries, here is a photo. 

She arrived on Thursday morning and by Friday morning, Kathryn, myself (we ditched work), and Kathleen were packed and ready to drive down to Seward for some camping/hiking action. Seward is located...

probably the closest I'll get to my love Capt. Sig Hansen. I would be lying if I didn't have hopes of seeing him. Seward is a very well known fishing town. I mean people have things like this hanging from their trees as decoration. 

But that is besides the point. We went down there and sadly the theme of the weekend was water. That wasn't going to get us down though because gosh darn it, we were going to camp! So we purchased two tarps, some waterproof fire starting sticks, and wood (which also happened to be filled with water) in grand hopes of smores and a wienie roast. We discovered a most excellent camp site complete with an awesome tree bench, which was poached slightly from a different site. But we made it our own. 

Now while these hooligans monkeyed around, I got down to some serious engineering business. See that plastic bag near the right corner of the tent? Boom!

Hello Panama Canal, Erin Humphrey eat your heart out. The plastic bag caught our overflow of water from the tarp and filtered it to Kathryn's freshly dug trail. 

We clearly should have been engineers but not definitely not fire starters. We had some issues the first night with our fire capabilities; we had to cook our food on the waterproof fire sticks! The next night though (after buying new wood and going through a pack and a half of fire sticks) we ignited some killer flames! We were able to melt glass in it! 

The aftermath, pretty intense. 

And in true Larissa fashion, we had a photo shoot with the fire. 

That's me! Love, Kathryn. 

Oh Kathleen...Dream big. 

Ring of fiiiiiiirree. 

So I figured I would keep this entry to camping and leave the day adventures for the next ones but we did do this little walk around to discover what was around our camp site and we found this! 

And we found this...dun, dun, dunnnnn

For those of you who don't know, Steel Reserve is the bane of my existence. We broke up a loooong time ago and will never make up. How ironic it is that we found this can when Kathleen has so many stories about me and the good ole 211. Anyway in case you don't think the other posts will be exciting, just look at Kathryn, she is jumping out her skin waiting for them! And who wouldn't want to see our mugs some more? 

Plus, Kathleen says do it! You don't want to make her angry.