After a fairly short night's sleep on Friday night, we got up at 4:30am and were ready to roll by 5:15. Got to the airport in plenty of time for our 7:20 flight, although the check-in line was slow and inefficient at the Alaska Airlines desk. The first leg of our flight was from Houston to Seattle (3hr45min), which was just a stopover. We got off and walked around the airport to stretch our legs. Then we flew from Seattle to Anchorage (3hr). Had lunch at Chili's at the airport and boarded one more plane to Fairbanks, which was a short 45 minutes. The scenery on the first two flights was spectacular, with snow capped mountains all around from Colorado north. We had hoped we'd see Mt McKinley on the last leg, but we flew above a heavy blanket of clouds the whole way. We arrived in Fairbanks at 5:15 (8:15 Texas time) and were very glad to be ending our travel for the day! As we stepped outside the airport, we found we definitely weren't in Houston anymore - it was a chilly 57 degrees! We took a shuttle to the Bridgewater Hotel, in the heart of downtown Fairbanks....which isn't saying much. We took a walk around town after settling in - very deserted...just not much there. There was a very nice park - Griffin Park - along the river with lots of statues, etc. We crossed the river and checked out the "Battle of the Bands" concert - not a large audience, but some pretty good music. Despite the fact that there are 19 hours of daylight today, we decided to call it a night so we're refreshed to see what else Fairbanks has to offer in the morning!
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