I woke up Friday morning and it was GORGEOUS out!  Nice and sunny and warm (for Alaska that is haha).  Erin, Claire and I took out Sully's stiches and tried to figure out a way to keep him in his enclosure so he wont' keep drinking the water...which he ended up knocking down anyway haha.  When it's nice and sunny here you really have to take advantage of it so we biked a trail to Portage Lake and ate some grilled cheese at the lodge.  It was sooo good.  Erin also showed up some fiddleheads then devils club on the trail.  Devil's club is this really spiky, thorny plant...it's all over.  It looks wicked.  Jonathan and Jeremy went out to dip net hooligan but I didn't join (I'd only get to watch since dip netting is limited to Alaska residents) and so they brought back plenty.  I got to end the day doing a musk ox feeding after a walk and throwing the football around with MT, Nicki, and Alexis.

Saturday was another beautiful sunny day so Jeremy, Claire, Alexis, and I went to Hope and did a hike to Gull Rock.  The view at the top was great and we ate lunch and tried to soak up some rays.  We stopped at the Discovery Cafe for some dinner on the way home.  I was just about to settle in with a movie I have to watch for my online class when I heard Jack, our four year old moose, got out and we had to get him back in the enclosure.  Not gonna lie I was kind of scared at one point when he started coming in hot at the gate where I was standing to open and close it when it was needed...I realized at that moment I have no idea what to do when a moose comes at you.  Finally Mike who was out on the tractor came and scared him towards the gate and Erin used to four wheeler to get him to run into the enclosure.

Work today was...just one of those days.  It was productive though.  I spent a lot of the early morning with Jordan, the conservation biologist here at the center, getting to know more of his background and his work with the bears here.  He had us fill up some spray bottles of apple and cranberry juice to use as a reward or reinforcement for some behavior training.  I haven't seen the work him and Erin had done with Taqoka, our kodiac, and I was impressed.  He knows how to sit, stand, wave, and target.  He was loving the juice spray but the big bears not so much.  I also cleaned up the barn, did some feedings, and we put in a new freezer which we packed with more meat that was donated.  Moving meat from a cooler that had shut off to a new one wasn't my favorite task of the day but at least Nicole and I got a ride on Mike's tractor.  We also got another hooligan donation (we have SO much hooligan now!).  We just recently moved the moose calves and musk ox babies into an enclosure together so feeding was interesting.  I was afraid Hamm wasn't going to eat because the moose kind of intimidate him.  We even got Sully to drink all his formula.  Nicole and I ended the day feeding the big bears a whole bin of meat...I never thought I'd say this but thoughts of becoming a vegetarian may have crossed my mind (don't worry Grandma I still love steak! haha)  Riding the four wheeler there was pretty interesting because I had to hold on to the bin while holding on so I didn't fly off.  I definitely want a four wheeler to play with one day.