Trip to Alaska

Here we are in Seattle on the first day of our adventure.  We had a tour through the neighborhood where my sister in law,  Martha Leavitt used to live.  The Queen's area overlooks the water and there's an excellent view of the skyline from here.  The houses were small and quaint (and big and nice) in this area.  Most had beautifully landscaped yards and lots of bright flowers.   Seattle had a unique feel about it.  Lots going on all over town.

This picture is the Tracey Arm Fjord.  The glacier spills into the ocean and ice chucks are floating all around in the water .  We got up early this morning to see the scenery as the ship passed through a narrow inlet to get us close to the blue ice of the glacier.  Very beautiful!  We met new friends on board too.  That was one of the best parts of the cruise for me.

This amazing waterfall was right by the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau.  (above this picture) We hiked about a mile from the visitors center to get to it.  A really nice day and some people were even swimming in a warm water pool along the path.  The weather was perfect on our trip.  May is the best time to visit Alaska.

Here's the seven of us who took the trip for Granny's 80th birthday.   My wonderful sister in law Martha Leavitt .  My brother Berne and his son Cade, Terry and me, Mom, and my sister Bonnie.  It was great to have just the seven of us.  So nice for visiitng and getting places together. These gardens in Victoria Canada were absolutely beautiful!

Celebrating Granny's birthday at dinner.  We actually did it twice since we forgot to take pictures the first time.  Some of the waitors gathered around with us to sing.  We all ate a lot of dessert every night.  Everything was so good and we all came home much fatter!

This is our waitor that took such good care of us for a formal dinner each night.  He is Reagan from India.  Very cute with a smile we all loved!  Terry has these pictures labeled, but I can't preview them before they start loading.  I'll try one more and see if it's a good one to show....(picture is above)
Terry posing by an "inukchuk."  These are man made rock creations that we saw when we got off the white rail train on our way to the summit in Skagway.   Beautiful mountains and icy waters....Alaska is a rainforest and everything is very lush and green.
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Here we are after dinner one night.  We dressed up sometimes which was really fun.  This is the internet place on the ship.   We were just looking for a quiet place to take a picture. The cruise was great and we liked it a lot more than we thought we would.  Hope we can all go together some time in the future!