Back in 2006, our family of four drove down to Florida to spend time with Alan’s brother and sister-in-law, Tom and Joan, and visit Disney World. We had so much fun with Aunt Joan and Uncle Tommy that I gathered our photos into a slide show and set it to music. The last song in the montage was one I think all of you old timers would recognize – if I could just remember the title. Which, of course, I can’t at the moment. Anyway, the music was sort of sad and poignant, and our family, to this day, refers to it as the sad good-bye music. At least one of us will reference it whenever we leave our family’s favorite lake at the end of our summer stay. I warned Alan that I wasn’t going to be happy about having to leave Seward, and that proved to be so very true. And I remember thinking – and probably mentioning to him – that it was time to cue the sad good-bye music. Although I really didn’t want to leave, I knew we still had plenty of Alaskan adventures ahead.
