Friday, June 24, 2011

Bear Butt... not Bare Butt!

Our trip to Alaska resulted in hundreds of photographs - the scenery was breathtaking! We spent three days in Seattle before our cruise; were able to spend time with Bren and Sawyer as well as Daphne!John & Daphne in front of the (ABC) gum wall. - yeah, gross - but actually very pretty if you don't touch it!


One of thousands of icebergs we saw cruising up Tracy Arm Fjord. The scenery was awesome!



Mendenhall Glacier and the Disney cruise ship. The Disney ship was much smaller (and willing to risk life & limb of their passengers?) so they could get much closer than we could.


On our stop in Skagway, we did a scenic drive - highly recommend! We were able to stop the bus anytime we saw something, the driver was awesome and pointed out all of the sights and let us take as many pictures as we wanted. This was Emerald Lake which was located in the Yukon of Canada. The green color was caused by the silt from the glaciers.


One of many waterfalls (and yes it was cold - well at least for a girl from Arizona it was cold!)


Snow capped mountains, lakes, and trees as far as you could see!


Our next stop was in Juneau where we did a raft trip. We started out in a lake at the base of Mendenhall Glacier and rafted down about 6 miles of "rapids" - they weren't very rapid - but it was very beautiful.

John & I at dinner the first night of the cruise.


In Ketchikan we caught a lumberjack show (go ahead and sing it... you know you want to... I'm a Lumberjack and I'm okay....) It was very funny and it was amazing what these guys could do with an axe/saw.

And Now as the title stated.... Bear Butt! This was on our scenic tour in Skagway - this "little" guy was just walking right down the middle of the street. I was sitting on the opposite side of the bus and therefore *I* was only able to get a picture of his butt. Luckily John was able to catch this one for us! :-)


Saturday, April 9, 2011

Absolute Delight?


Jackson turns one next week and we celebrated his birthday a little early. Can you see the absolute sheer delight on this little boys face eating his cake?