Sunday, July 31, 2011

Alaska 2

A few months ago, Elle (one of the girls from tennis) came over and she used my machine to make quilts for her sisters that live in Australia that were both having babies this year. Then she found the little outfits in Florida when she visited. It was a fun project and I learned a lot about my machine!



Flowers in the front yard. Why do they bloom and die so quickly?





The cruise ship sitting in port in Seattle. They are monstrous vessels.





Our stateroom where we lived for 8 days.




Here's looking back from our balcony as we pulled out of port. I am leaning past our partition and didn't notice till tonight that I am such a good photographer that I caught our neighbor's belly in the picture!





Skyline of Seattle.




Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau.






The train in Skagway that we didn't take. There were waterfalls everywhere.






This bear ran in front of our bus on the road to the Yukon. We stopped and watched him eat on the side of the road. That was our only wildlife sighting other than the whales and a bald eagle that flew ten feet off our balcony.




Calving at Glacier Bay.





This was my quarantine day while we were cruising Glacier Bay. Long story. Just a warning - don't EVER, EVER ask for Imodium on a cruise ship unless you are on death's doorstep.




Glacier Bay. These pictures don't show how expansive everything is. Kind of like the sky in Montana. The landscape is just larger than life in Alaska.





Can you see the whale's tail? Probably only if the picture is as big as your screen. We saw them all afternoon coming out of Glacier Bay. The only one I saw completely come out of the water was when I didn't have my camera, just the binoculars. We got up at 6 one morning and froze sitting at the front of the boat to try to see some whales and we saw tons more on a clear and sunny afternoon.




We did not do our homework for this trip. We were so busy before we left and didn't even think to see where there were going to be lighthouses. The day before we ended the cruise we thought to ask. We caught this one just in time and then the next was just as we came into Victoria. I don't know how many we passed that we didn't know about!!





What a beautiful trip and how lucky we were to be able to go and see that part of the country and a tiny bit of Canada. Here's to 30 more years of marriage!



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