 We are trekking Pals Habiba and Alex, and for the last few weeks we have been calling Alaska home working from our little tiny Airbnb during the week and hitting the hiking trails during the weekends, exploring the last frontier, challenging ourselves, learning and appreciating the opportunity to escape the heat of the desert. Hello guys and welcome back to the channel. Today is the Eid celebration. So Eid Mubarak Karim for those who celebrate and for those who don't know, this is the Eid Adha celebration, a celebration for all Muslims around the world in the memory of Prophet Abraham and his son. And so since we are in beautiful Alaska, we're not going to be celebrating as I'm used to back home. But instead we're taking the day off here to enjoy the beauty of the state. Just take it easy and have a fun exploring day here near Anchorage. So we slept in very late and so about around 2pm we made it to a breakfast place just to get enough energy to get going. And the plan was to make it to Alaska but then the traffic was really bad. So it took us a long time to attempt to get there and so halfway or even less than halfway we kind of decided that it's not really worth it. We don't want our day off to be spent in traffic, really bad traffic. And so we are here at Rosbury Park, a nice little park near where we are staying for the time being. And so we're going for a nice short hike under the rain in this beautiful park. Let's go. So it seems like from the signs this is a loop or a route that people snowshoe on or cross country ski on in winter. And really I'm sure that it makes for a beautiful cross country skiing. So we're up here and we are apparently following the one-way portions of the trail the wrong way. So we're bad patrons right now but we're going to go a little bit more the wrong way I think now that we've realized that and then we'll go the correct way around this other loop past the lake and then back to where we started at the parking lot. So we'll stop going the wrong way here in a moment. The doctor told me that I'm allergic to fire within. I was like well let me look up what fire we did. Surely it's red like fire. It seems like it's these pretty flowers that have been photographing for a long time. These don't walk or push a bike back up the jumps always walk to the side. Well obviously these are agreements for bike riding not for hikers and walkers. It's good to let people know what skill set they need how to stay safe and all the good stuff. Ready? Actually I have no idea which way we're supposed to go. I think we go that way actually. Cool that way we go. All right. The bugs are savage here. I mean even when we were running in the other parks so definitely if you are visiting Alaska and you plan on doing some city exploring in the city parks even in the wilderness make sure that you have bug spray or at least cover your skin. Oh there's a helicopter. Can't see it. They're eating me alive. God. So we're coming closer to a lake called Little Campbell Lake and yeah we're not really following the trail to be honest. There are a bunch of trails here so we're just making it as we go. That's always fun. So this is the clothes we got to the lake. It's right there but these bugs they're not making us stay long. How are you doing? Not bad. I feel like a horse with my hat. Beaching yourself? They're like I'm gonna eat her through her shirt. Look this nice. Got him. There's four on your head. Five six on your head. Two on your neck. Oh my goodness. They're stuck in your hair. They're everywhere. Nice walking the park to a lost fight against nasty bugs. How are you doing? I feel violated. I feel like they've just taken what they want from me and left his mind to have. There was like a big cloud just following Alex all the way. I'm wearing my like warmer or my colder weather hat so with the rain I was sweating like a pig under that. It's a little insulated. Wow this view of downtown is nice. Nice parking lot. Thanks. You should go see the park upstairs. We're gonna go for a stroll in downtown Anchorage. Maybe check out the mall. Get something to eat. So I can show you around. So let's go. All right let's we want to check this unique Alaskan gift shop. Nice little bare seat. Barely seats. Barely. Barely seats. So we usually don't do a lot of souvenir shopping. We usually get postcards, send them to our moms and sometimes we'll get magnets for the fridge but not a lot but this tour is really beautiful. There are so many cool things and we're just thinking about every single person we know. Every family member just oh I could send this to this person and this to this person and then there'll be a lot of things and but yeah just a lot of beautiful unique souvenirs. Near us here and we can see the the ports from here and seems like we can drive to the port of Anchorage. We're not very sure if we can get in but we'll give it a try. Look at that. There are so many walls with the nice paintings. Murals. Murals. So apparently the port is not open to the public but however the guy right here at the checkpoint he directed us to a dock and the dock is open to the public apparently and so we're gonna go check it out. He also let us 20 feet into the port because he's a gentleman. Yeah just to make a u-turn. Exactly. It seems like this was a strategic spot to trap fish and this is one technique that the natives or I would say the people who inhabited the area used to follow in order for them to trap fish during the spring and summer seasons. The other time we were in Seward I realized that these poles with the white marks over there so the dock floats the dock over there floats up and down depending on whether the tide is low or high. Really if you come back here when the tide is high you probably won't see much of the pole sticking there because the dock will just float up. I come from a family of fishermen and so every time I go to a fishing port or just by the water and seagulls and fish it just makes me so happy inside. Well it's about time for us to go and get some food. I already placed our order and the restaurant is going to close in about 30 minutes so we will have to get going. Turkish delight. We really like this restaurant and we ate here I think twice since we got to Alaska and during our stay in Anchorage and we're getting food from them for the third time and because it's Said I'd like me some good meat and I already tried their lampshops and they were so good so that's exactly what I ordered again. Oh food is coming. Thank you guys for watching although I know that this was not a hiking adventure but really enjoyed bringing you with me in a normal typical day where I try to celebrate to eat to the best that I can and I hope that you guys enjoyed it and if you did give this video a thumbs up and consider subscribing to our channel for weekly vlogs about hiking and backpacking. You're trekking paths Habiba and Alex and we'll see you soon on a new adventure. Bye!