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On the flight home from Vancouver. Vacation wears a little person out!
It was too cold to use the outdoor pools and the only indoor pool was adults only, so the hot tubs got a Baxter workout.
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The ridiculously-named yet still delicious flirtini.
Brings to mind ye olde passenger liners of yore.
I was completely incapable of capturing the beauty of the inside of the old growth forests.
Artsy washed-up starfish.
The Celebrity Millenium, as seen from Icy Strait Point.
Taking advantage of some good light in Skagway.
Soaring bald eagle.
Whale! Sadly slightly out of focus, but a whale nonetheless.
Oh hai, sea lion.
Whale-watching Baxter.
Whale tail! We saw plenty of humpbacks, but no orcas. Dem's dolphins, anyway.
Also on the whale-watching trip, a whole mess o' sea lions.
We went whale-watching in Juneau -- here's a bald eagle along the way.
Sadly this is the only bear we saw on our trip. Although considering how many years were taken off my life by running into one while hiking in Montana, maybe that's for the best.
Dread formal night on the cruise. Baxter got to wear his ring bearer tuxedo again.
"Fine" dining. I wish I'd taken a picture of the big collection of ice buckets, 2-3 of which were filled with bottles of white zinfandel. There was also a lot of holding one's fork straight up in one's fist and sawing away at one's meat. (The
This be the Hubbard Glacier.
Note the extreme emptiness of the room -- nothing like waking up in the 5am hour on vacation and having it be bright as noon outside.
Yucky window smudges on this one, but a nice reflection all the same.
Postcard-riffic.
Reflected snow-capped mountain cliché, check.
The mountains got progressively snowier the further we went, until everything was covered in packed distinct layers of snow.
More of the Alaska Railroad.
Classic bend-in-the-train-tracks shot.
Baxter checking out the views from the Coastal Classic.
We started our trip in Anchorage and took the Alaska Railroad from Anchorage to Seward. The views were spectacular.
Obligatory artsy train shot.
We took a walk along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Anchorage.
Alaska's Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm have the second-highest tides in all of North America, surpassed only by the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Each time the tide goes out it exposes extensive mudflats which are composed of glacial silt carri
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