Our Trip to Alaska Part 9 - August 2012

Here it is about half an hour before we go across the Street to Chabad of Anchorage for Mincha  Kabbalat Shabbat and our first Shabbat meal.

We anchored in Seward Alaska this am and were off the ship by 8:30 am.

We rented a van and thankfully were able to get all our luggage into the van with enough room for us to sit comfortably. We drove the 2 and a half hours to anchorage and checked into our hotel. It is literally next door to Chabad.

We then did our laundry and did our shopping for food for Sunday and Monday. We found out that we are very fortunate that the Chabad rabbi's daughter got married this week here....it was covered on the local news as it is the first chassidic wedding to have ever taken place in Alaska. 
So therefore we will not only be dining with Chabad but we will be participating in Sheva brachot with the family.

We met the mechutan from Kiryat Malachi at the supermarket this afternoon. 

So it should be a very interesting Shabbat.

Btw, Shabbat ends here at about 11 pm.

Anchorage is a city of 200000 people and looks quite developed and modern. It is our first taste of urban Civilization in a week.

We hope you all had a great Shabbat

We will let you know how our Shabbat was by Sunday or Monday.

All the best

Fran and David