The boys thought it was great and were perfectly content to eat non-stop at the food buffet. And when they weren't doing that, they were looking for the dessert bar. We stopped in Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, Icy Straight point and Hubbard Bay.
The Highlights
Cruising near the enormous (and cold!) Hubbard Glacier and watching it calve into the ocean.
Going to Liarsville, panning for gold and taking the train down the White Pass Yukon trail.
Did they get any? Well, since this was highly touristy, they ended up with a few flakes to bring home.
Walking the streets of Ketchikan and Juneau
Hiking to Lower Lake in Skagway
Tour on on the Aleutian Ballad
If any of you have watched the first couple seasons of "Deadliest Catch" it features this boat. They have turned it into a tour boat after it was overturned in the Bering Sea. Although they didn't take us crab fishing, they did take us out and gave us a small sampling of what crab fisherman do. They also baited about 30 bald eagles to fly around the boat by throwing fish in the water. Pretty cool to see them diving in the water grabbing the fish.
Funny Story. Before this tour, Bennett had decided that he loved shrimp and for several dinners he had specifically ordered shrimp. Then, he got to see what shrimp actually look like alive and not on a dinner plate. Yes. Like big giant bugs. He decided shrimp weren't that good after all.
Last but not least - hanging around the ship. Owen and Chase loved the kid's club and Taylor and Bennett loved the food, which left Scott and myself some alone time to wander the streets of some of the cities.
1 comment:
Wow. You guys take some cool trips. We might need to do this one. So completely different from Florida. (though I recently read somewhere that Alaska followed by FL have more bald eagles than any other state.)
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