A Few Thoughts on Alaska

As many of you know, my parents took Art and I on a seven day cruise to Alaska along the Inside Passage. They had never cruised before and none of us had seen Alaska. What a trip! We all slept like babies while the boat gently rocked us to sleep each night, enjoyed exploring the huge ship and all the options for entertainment, plus more food than any four people should ever try to eat. Ashore, there were fabulous mountains, beautiful glaciers, unbelievably blue icebergs, whales, eagles, dolphins, Native Americans, totem poles - just unbelievable.

We saw the site of the trek to the Klondike gold rush in Skagway, visited the Mendenhall glacier in Juneau (that's us across the lake from the glacier), got very close to a glacier in the Tracy Arm fjord, saw Native Americans carving totem poles and danced with them in Ketchikan (the Native Americans, not the totem poles), and saw Victoria, BC by horse drawn wagon. I kept thinking: "'how incredible is our Creator who made sights too fabulous to even describe adequately!" I especially want to thank my folks again for their generosity. We can't say enough good things about the whole experience.

PS> for those of you who wondered....Dad picked blackberries until his fingers and lips were purple and he couldn't eat any more. He had a hard time driving by all the unpicked ones on the way to the airport to fly home, though!