It's been almost 2 months now that we have been warned Mt. Redoubt could blow. Mt. Redoubt is situated about 120 miles from Anchorage on the Kenai Penninsula. There was one weekend in particular (probably 6 weeks ago now) that they were worried could be it- so everyone turned off all electronics, placed bags over them, and had plenty of face masks and car air filters ready. Nothing happened. So the status was dropped down to a lower concern level (maybe yellow instead of red) and the masks went back into the closet and we went on our way. Last night at 10:30 Mt. Redoubt decided to blow. Luckily Ken's sister sent him a text and alerted us to turn on the news, so we did. Apparently there had been about 30-40 small earthquakes leading up to explosion. It has so far spurted 4 times and there were ash fumes as high as 50,000 feet! So airplanes are not flying today around Alaska. Anchorage has been lucky to not see much (or any for that matter) ash yet as the wind in being nice to carry it another direction! We didn't have to break out the masks afterall (yet, atleast). It also means we didn't get to sleep in with the excuse not to go to work today. Bummer!
In other news... my new favorite sandwich is so delectably simple that I thought I would share it with you. You take 2 pieces of bread- put any kind of cheese you like (I use Havarti) on one side and toast the bread lightly. You then put some sliced avocado, then some light garlic salt, then some sliced tomato, put it all together and mmmmm mmmm mmm is it tasty! I have had about 4 in the last week and am still not sick of them. It doesn't taste as good if you do that in a different order- I know that sounds funny- but the garlic salt has to be in between the avocado and the tomato!
I will post some new pics of Kyson soon.
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