Yesterday I started the day interning with Claire in a behind the scenes tour (BTS).  She did so well!  She was throwing out lots of good and interesting facts about the animals here at the center.  It was a group of four women from Arizona that do weekend trips (just a weekend in Alaska?!) and we were able to take them in with the babies.  They were all about the babies.  Of course Walter was loving being in the spot light.  I didn't get the finish the tour out because I had to hop on a bus tour.  They were a mix of people from all sorts of places around the U.S. and luckily the big bears were out for them.  The rest of the day was full of gardening and feedings for the most part.  The center is starting to look really nice and all the gardening is helping.  This place seems to get green overnight.    I think the highlight of the day was Claire accidently locking me in the lynx enclosure when I was feeding them.  I was finishing up and I went to leave and couldn't open the door so I had to radio her.  Meanwhile Kaltag is coming towards me getting closer and closer.  A visitor asked me if I was in danger and trying to laugh it off and play it cool I just said "not yet!".  They probably wouldn't mess with me if I yelled at them but I don't want to mess with these cats.  A 20 pound lynx has a bigger paw then a 200 pound mountain lion...imagine getting swatted in the face with one of those!  After work a few of us went in to Anchorage and we went out to dinner (something other than ramen!) and picked up some groceries.  We didn't get back till late so by time we got home Nicole and I had to do the 12 am bottle feeding.  Everyone drank up their bottle nice and easy.

Today I worked in the gift shop.  The day went by so fast and I had great conversations with visitors.  One of which, I guess I can't really call him a visitor since he used to take photos for the center often, was named Calvin Hall and was telling Alexis and I about what he's done and his experience with the center and helping shoot photos when they filmed parts of Into the Wild here at the center with our animals.  Between him and Doug photography seems like it would be so fun to do (Dad! You should get into that ; ) haha)  After work Jeremy, Sarah, Claire, and I rode out on the four wheeler to the point to watch the bore tide come in....it never did but hopefully I can see a beluga sometime here soon! 

The pic below of the pink sky is from the 4 am feeding I had....SO pretty