35 2/7

Since my doctor cleared me last week to drive a bit further, on Monday we drove to Girdwood, which is about 45 minutes south of Anchorage. We made a few stops along the way down, and then had lunch in Girdwood, which is a small town at the base of the Alyeska Ski resort. We took a tram up to the top of the mountain (2,300 feet). Unfortunately, it was kind of cloudy at the top, so we could only intermittently see all the way down to the bottom, but it was still pretty cool up top, with an impressive amount of snow given that it's almost July!

My mom on top of Mt Alyeska, with Kristin and Chris (my brother-in-law, not my husband) in the background.

Taking the tram down the mountain, with another tram coming on up.

On the way back to Anchorage, we again made several stops on the Seward Highway. If you want to see more pictures, I've posted them on flickr.

I had my weekly ob appt today. It was supposed to be with Dr Ha, but about 5 min before I saw her she had to run to the hospital to deliver a baby, so I ended up seeing Dr McCleave instead. Very different from my ob's office in Boston, in which each doctor has a day when they're on call and don't see any clinic visits on those days. But I guess in a practice with only 2 doctors, things like that would have to run a bit differently. Everything continues to be fine, and now I have a date for a c-section: Tues July 27. Now we just need to work on plane tickets to get Chris up here before then. Hopefully I won't go into labor early, because then they'd have to take me to c-section whenever that happens. But since I'll be 39 1/7 on July 27, hopefully that won't happen!

Several people have commented that I don't look all that pregnant in pictures I've posted on the blog. In order to prove that I am in fact quite pregnant and in Alaska, my mom took this profile picture of me, which will hopefully put all rumors to rest! And trust me, my diminished lung and bladder capacity continually remind me just how pregnant I am...

Me, 35 0/7 weeks pregnant