Bake Sale!

We're having bake sales every Sunday during the church BBQ throughout August and September!

Guy at the print shop made my day!

Today I was dreading having to spend what little money I have on paper and envelopes for sending out support letters, but I reluctantly went to the print shop at WOU to buy some. I picked everything out and then the guy who was helping me asked what the paper was for and I told him out my mission trip so he gave me the paper and envelopes for free! Totally made my day! :)

Also I set up a website where you can donate to my trip online, it has information about the outreach were going to be doing, how much money I've raised and how much I still need, the site is: http://youcansend.me/udell check it out! 

More Pictures!

The view from bunkhouse 88

The cannery

The egg house

Bunkhouse 88

Our room

Alaska General Seafoods main plant

The board with all useful information

Salmon roe 

Bibs sweeping out the warehouse

Naknek river

Tundra!

A shopping cart someone found on the side of the road = days of intertainment 

BONEFIRE!

Back in the lower 48!

So I see that all the posts that we made while in Naknek look like gibberish for some reason, I have no idea why. So I will sum up what we were trying to communicate. We had safe travels the whole time, minus a delayed flight out of Anchorage on the way there, everything else went smoothly. We were blessed with a wonderful time and appreciate the prayers and support from home! We made lots of amazing new friends who made the whole experience great. The season was cut short because of not very many salmon being caught, but that was a blessing in disguise because we were able to help with Jessica's wedding and Corinne got to be there!! :) We didn't have any bear encounters, but were able to see some from a (safe) distance, and lots of tracks. We saw some bald eagles and the beautiful tundra around Naknek. Naknek, is a small fishing village in Bristol Bay. It is about 52 air miles east, and a little south, of Dillingham. Naknek shares the only paved road in the entire area with another village, King Salmon. It's hard to describe how this place feels like a foreign country, so here are some pictures

The road leading to Downtown Naknek, from the cannery. The brown building you see on the top of the hill is the edge of 'town".

The only store in Naknek, The Naknek Trading Company

Naknek Trading Co.

What more could you need?

The cannery itself is on the bank of the Naknek River, along with lots of other companies canneries, like Peter Pan, who Daniel's boat sells to. We both worked at the main plant, Sue in the "Egg House" processing salmon roe and Corinne in the Cannery running the "lid feed machine". We stayed in the upstairs of Bunkhouse 88, one of the many packed two story dorms with seemingly hollow wooden floors where you can hear every ones echoing footsteps. Our window looked out onto the entire camp, a much better view than most people had. Here is the sign from the road.

Naknek river at low tide, looking out of the breakroom.

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