I hate to have anyone get jealous, but I have to say that our cruise was like being in, what I picture as, the terrestial kingdom with parts of it celestial! Seattle was our starting place.
Brooklynn is great at trying new dishes...here she has buffalo frog legs. The frog legs were good, the buffalo seasoning not so much!
Our first stop was in Ketchican where we got to see the world's largest totem pole collection where real, live native Americans (notice my proper name calling!) carve these amazing things.
A slug! EW! Huge!
There were tons of bald eagles and we learned that it takes years for them (boys and girls) to get their white tips and heads. These are teenagers!
John is sporting a new do!
This is the glacier in Tracy Arm Fjord. It was mysteriously beautiful with the clouds so low over the icy water.
The glacier is in the back groud, between the two mountains.
Here we are in Skagway and this is the closest we got to a bear although there were suposed to be a lot of them around for the salmon spawning season.
Hmmm, maybe I DO look a little like Sarah Pallin, so I'm told. Give or take off a pound or 50!
Escargo! I love it!
Ketichan
In Ketchican this is a 'street'! Stairs are the only way to get to residences so they name the stairways!
In Skagway we went on a dog-sledding ride with 16 anxious huskeys happy to pull us at their top speed!
This is our 'sled'...a glorified golf-cart on wheels for the summer months!
We got to play with the seven new puppies!
We took a steam engine train to the top of the mountains in Juneau. The scenery was amazing! If you look really close you can see our cruise ship in the bay!
Juneau
Our train on the white mountain railroad where the gold rush trail is seen along the route.
In the train
These fire weeds were everywhere. They turn bright orange at the end of the season so the locals know that summer is ending!
Magael from India and Sanyo also from India were our waiters each night. They made dinner a really fun occasion!
In Victoria, BC we went to the Butchart Gardens-the celestial part of the trip!
Flowers were bigger than my hand!
I took so many videos of this place and said the same things over and over...incredible, amazing, unreal!
Look how huge these trumpet flowers are!
This is downtown Victoria. I could live there!
