Cinnamon Inn Bed and Breakfast Juneau

... it was about 40 degrees on the glacier).

We trekked back to base camp and boarded the helicopter back to the airport. Along the way, we flew up the glacier about 10 miles to the tip of its eastern arm. There was a dog sledding camp set up which looked like ants from our vantage point. We saw a mountain goat on a small plateau all alone on the mountain. When the glacier fell below us to the lake, it was ...

... are great views of the lake, glacier, and icebergs.

Mendenhall Visitor Center was very crowded with people from the cruise ships' tour buses. The film about glaciers is ok; poor picture quality. The views of the glacier are magnificent. The first time we were there, saw people on the glacier--through the telescope.

There were lots of sockeye ...

... throat pleats. Water is then filtered through baleen plates that hang from the upper jaw." (John Tobin Photography)

I did manage to get many of the whales on video from my camera and wished I had something more sophisticated to really capture the experience.

We did not want to leave but our time was running out in order to get back to shore in time, so it was a quick trip back past the sea lions on the buoy ...

... for leaving comments, I have been reading them. I'm not taking the time to reply though because of the internet connection here. The internet connection on the ship is iffy at times and cost $0.50 a minute. At least we have thought though. The cell phones on the other hand seldom work, but when they do it is often in the strangest places. Today while at the glacier people were on their cell phones, go figure.

... Juneau. Our pilot, Boyd, was nice and funny. He was from Wyoming. My dinner tonight at the Provence was so good. I had the beef tenderloin medallions with A1 sauce. Just like the add on T.V!!!!!! And for desert I had chocolate ice cream.The lakers are so awesome the magic are going to get swept I know it and If KOBE drops 40 a game every game they are not going to lose any games!!!!! GO LAKERS!!!! I love u all who r reading this blog............  

... it made me feel at home) we knew that we would love Alaska. The town of Skagway was beautiful, and we stayed in a delightful B&B, the highlight of which was ...

Well, our trip has begun. We started off in Grand Rapids today with a flight at 7am. Every flight was on time.. which is surprising.. and 10 hours later, here we are. We were greeted with a Toyota Matrix (third time we have had this rental up here) which made us laugh. We then headed to Amy's house (our lovely host) to unload some baggage. Once settled we got to grocery shopping as it was only 2pm here. We were starving (ok I was starving) so we finished ...

... and people were standing by the street and cheering. We waved back at the people participating in the parade who were throwing candy just like at carnival. Sure enough when I was telling Jason that in Germany they throw really hard stuff, not only candy anymore and that you actually have to be careful and pay attention to not get hurt, a fuc.... ******* throws what felt like a metal candy at my nose. I couldn't believe it and the fun ...

... in our travels! One day we saw an ad in the local newspaper for a theater company get together. We thought it had to do with a company production; something we could attend. So we called up to attend. It turned out to be a BBQ salmon dinner and a fund raiser for the company, and then got ...

... hilly and nearly mountainous as we made our descent.

The pilot set down on what appeared to be a deep, blue pool of water. In reality, however, it was blue ice. Blue ice is the oldest ice in the glacier -- and the most solid. It gets its blue color from thousands of years of intense pressure having squeezed all of the air out of the ice. Setting a choppee down on white snow, in fact, could be most dangerous, since the snow is not solid ...