For our summer vacation this year we took an Alaskan cruise. We had been talking about doing one for a while, and the price was right for us to do it this year. We had a lot of fun, but we are sure glad to be home.
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| The view of the Space Needle from our hotel room |
The duck boats are old WW2 era amphibious vehicles that take you on a tour of downtown Seattle by land and sea, and the drivers are hilarious.
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| They were going to charge me $30 to download the full resolution version of this picture, so I just copied the thumbnail |
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| Captain Tuck'n'Roll |
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| On the duck boat |
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| On the duck boat |
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| The duck boat in the water |
In Seattle, we visited the EMP Museum, which included displays on science fiction and fantasy. They had Captain Kirk's original chair, costumes from the Princess Bride, and the Terminator's skull, among other stuff. It was small, but pretty cool.
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| Captain Kirk's chair |
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| Maybe if I suck in my stomach a little, I can fit in Christopher Reeve's costume |
We set sail from Seattle, spent one day at sea, and then visited the Tracy Arm Fjord, Skagway Alaska, Juneau Alaska, Ketchikan Alaska, and Victoria British Columbia in Canada before coming back to Seattle.
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| Mount Rainier from the Seattle port |
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| Our cabin on the Miracle (the wide angle makes it look bigger than it was) |
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| The view from the deck of our cabin - out at open sea |
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| Sailing into the Tracy Arm Fjord |
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| Looking back along the ship in the Tracy Arm Fjord |
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| The Sawyer Glacier - a literal river of ice |
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| A sea lion and her cub watch us sail past |
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| Panning for gold |
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| Eureka! |
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| Panning for gold |
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| Juneau is the capital of Alaska, but it's really tiny. Also, you can't get there by land! |
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| Christine demonstrates her favorite part of Juneau - cell phone access so she can text |
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| Picturesque mountain streams in Juneau |
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| A wall-like mountain range on the coast of Alaska |
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| This little towel man was made by the cleaning staff |
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| Christine made this little towel elephant. I called him a towlephant! |
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| A whale tail! We saw a lot of action from whales off the side of the ship, but it was really hard to catch anything with the camera. I have hundreds of pictures of open ocean with a little splash in the middle. |
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| Spouts from breaching humpback whales |
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| Welcome to Canada! |
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| A photo opportunity in Canada. |
