Alaskan Cruise

10 birthdays, 2 vacations, a family reunion, and a wedding!!!

What a summer!!! As you can see by all the photos posted from this summer it has been practically non-stop fun all summer long and I have to say I'm pretty well done in by it all. I'm certainly ready for things to slow down around here that is for sure. Now if I can just manage to get that to happen somehow!!! ;)

Here are the photos from our Alaskan Cruise. I know I'm probably infamous about the horrible amount of photos I post so I have whittled these down (from almost 600 taken!!!!!!), after all these are just vacation photos not photos of my wonderful grandchildren so it wasn't so hard to get it down to 40 photographs, (aren't you so very glad!!)

We started out from Seattle, Washington

Safeco Field,... my husband wanted this one.

The Space Needle

Sammie before we launched from Seattle

Sammie out on our balcony, looking over Seattle with his binoculars.

Bye Bye Seattle

Hello Ketchikan, Alaska

The sun rises at 4:30 and sets at 9:30 p.m. here!!! These photos were taken at around 6 a.m.

Beautiful, it almost looks like a postcard

Sammie, the ship behind him was not ours but one from another line

Yours truly...very soggy!!
If you plan on making the trip anytime be sure you bring your rain gear because it was practically raining the entire time we were there.

Sammie at the back of our boat

There are literally thousands of waterfalls all along the cruise route, this is just one of many that we photographed. It was too tall to be able to get it all in the photo.

The first ray of sunshine we saw since arriving in Alaska (behind the island). It was there for a while but disappeared before we got passed it.

This was in the Tracy Arm Fjord. Lots of icebergs!!!

Glacier in the Tracy Arm Fjord, very blue iceberg in front.

Huge iceberg

Getting some perspective... this is not a small boat and as you can see the icebergs (which are farther away) look to be as big as it.

Still in the Tracy Arm Fjord

Juneau, Alaska

Mendenhall Glacier (note the people in the foreground grassy area). IT'S HUGE!!!

Sammie in the tan jacket

Our ship from the top of a mountain in Juneau. We were up really high!! Too high for me really, but I braved it out for Sammie

Skagway, Alaska. We were scheduled for this train ride up to White Pass Summit and Sammie literally ran into the town of Skagway to pick up one of his new obsessions (Harley T-shirts), before our train tour. We didn't think to have him take the camera and the train trip turned out to take up nearly all of our time at Skagway, he said the town was really beautiful, regrettably there are no photos of the town and I didn't even get to see it at all. Here are the photos of the train ride, it was very beautiful the whole way up.

Another peek of sun. The last we would see until Victoria, B.C.

Photo of Sammie from our balcony.

SUNNY, Victoria, B.C., Canada

Again, note the size of the people on this pier

Call me weird, but I have always loved old cemeteries. I think it has something to do with my love of history and even my love of family. Sammie knows that if we ever pass an old cemetery we always have to stop. So when we missed out on the whale watching cruise we thought we had already booked he got us on the cemetery tour.

Beautiful monuments

Sad... this little ones (he was 17 months old) mother never saw the grave site, she just couldn't bring herself to see it. She was buried 69 years later next to the grave of her baby! I can't remember where she died but she was no longer close to the area and had to be brought there. See what I mean about family? Such touching stories.

Kinda creepy

City of Victoria

And back to Seattle to head for home sweet home.