Mike and I faced our biggest day yet (show-wise) on Wednesday. We drove to Wasilla, about 45 minutes or an hour outside of Anchorage, where we performed six shows at Wasilla Middle School. At least it was six shows at one school, so we didn’t have to break down, set up, or drive between shows. It was still pretty exhausting. Four shows back to back, lunch at a really good Italian restaurant in a hotel, then two more shows.

Problem! The school thought we were coming the following day, so they weren’t prepared for our arrival. We got started a little late, and we had to present a hardcopy of our contract to prove that we were right, but it all worked out really well. In fact, they gave me and Mike little Wasilla Middle School pins and a thank-you note. Yay!

During our third sketch, when Mike asked the audience for “the most boring, uncool town you’ve ever been to” as a suggestion, a girl shouted, “Juneau!” We used it. A teacher informed me later that the girl was the Governor’s daughter, so she associated Juneau with getting dragged to her parents’ work. Interesante! Also noteworthy: We got mobbed for autographs for the first time.

We spent the afternoon doing some more free sightseeing. We walked a short little trail to Thunderbird Falls, which was a pretty, but underwhelming, waterfall. We drove out to Eklutna Lake in Chugach State Park, which feeds a power plant and provides Anchorage with drinking water.

Mike and I skipped stones for a little while and enjoyed the scenery. We visited the Eagle River Nature Center, where we saw a salmon run. On the way there, we came upon a moose and its calf in the road. Real, live, wild moose!

That night, we ate at an Anchorage restaurant called The Moose’s Tooth, which has amazing pizza. There was halibut on the pizza, and the halibut was great. Like, we could’ve eaten it as just halibut. But atop an also great pizza, it was just…super great.