Our First Night Hike

Dinner at Tramonti's tonight! Our first trip there and we thought it would be a nice walk there and back in the dark with our flashlights. After running into the two armadillos last night, we were eager to get out and see what else we could scare up. (At least I was. BigJohn seems to have developed an aversion to huge green spiders in his hair.)

It looks to be a fancy place (cloth napkins and silverware that doesn't look like it came from the school cafeteria)with good service. Surprised that the prices were reasonable. BigJohn wanted to try the pizza even though I've warned him he's not going to be happy with pizza outside of Naknek. We got the house special.

I thought it was a little burned on the edges but the owner is from Italy and that might be the way they make it there. You know. Authentic? Or could be it's hard to adjust the temperature in those wood-burning brick ovens. We'll have to try them again and see if it's burned the next time.

  

Yeah! They're cooking the pizza in that brick oven and also cooking with fire. Good to know for when the power goes out again! The place was almost empty but a tour bus was pulling up spewing out tourists as we left. Good timing for us!

Decided to cut our night hike short as the wind was picking up and it had started to rain. So we headed home. Along the way we found brown jays sleeping along our lane. Spotted a fantastic tree that I'd never even noticed before in the daylight. Oh wait. Where are we? Wrong turn down the lane! No wonder I'd never noticed that tree before! I'm not saying we got lost or anything like that. Just missed a turn.

Found LOTS of spider action going on with some terrific web making.

 And yes, they are really as big as they look. Giant webs too. So since we didn't find much to share on the night tour, decided to throw in this bad footage of the baby sloth with its mother that I shot at Hannah and Francisco's place today. In my defense, the wind was blowing hard making it difficult to hold the camera still. Plus I had to crane my neck back really far to look high in the tree. And that dead branch the mother sloth is thinking of grabbing on to? She went for it right after I quit filming and yes it did break right off and she almost fell out of the tree. And I missed the whole thing. Just because my neck was getting sore. I feel like such a loser. I'll try harder next time. What you're looking at is the sloth's back and the baby is clinging to her stomach.