Juneau the capital of Alaska? Juneau how many times I can hear that joke from a 6 and 8 year old?
I believe every true Alaskan resident is required to have something stuffed as a piece of artwork.
Float plane time! The only time I felt sea sick was on this plane as it buffeted along over Taku inlet. I was hoping no one would shout, "Thar she blows" because I was pretty sure they would be referring to me.
Awww, sweet brothers waiting for the float plane. What I didn't capture on film was them trying to kick each other in the boy parts.
With captain Dan. Nice guy. Didn't say much. I think he was doing the same thing my dad was doing during this float plane tour: counting the $'s.
Uncle Matt quick to grab Ryan if he bolted into the cockpit.
Ryan was jazzed about the headphones!
Nana and the lady behind her were also really jazzed about the headphones! The look of horror and disillusionment is too much.
He kept talking into the tail of his seat belt and saying "Breaker, Breaker. Come in." Expensive trip for him to be pretending to be a pilot, but he loved it!
Kyle just kept pointing to things and telling me in an intense voice, "MOM. LOOK!" I have no idea what he was pointing at half the time.
Taku or Norris or North Glacier? I don't know, there were a lot of glaciers. I'm going to refer to them all as the Taku glacier just to make it easy.
The deep blue of the ice from the glacier comes from the lack of air or water bubbles and the absorption of light spectrums except blue.
The top of Taku glacier. Less smooth than I had anticipated.
Taku (or some other) glacier.
He's just missing the dogs and the snow.
Due to the glaciers scraping the land down to the rock, there is very little top soil in these areas and tree roots stay closer to the top for water and nutrients.
You know how everything is bigger in Texas... not the lichen.
Black bear at camp eating the salmon drippings. I guess this girl's name is Lois. She likes dusty salmon drippings and long walks on the glacier.
She's not cuddling, she just feels like she is still rocking back and forth on the boat.
Sometimes waterfall is sometimes beautiful.
It rained the whole time we were at Taku Lodge, but that didn't bother us Oregonians. Rain is liquid sunshine.
Kyle has gotten into cribbage lately, so now I'm going to have to go hunt a whale or moose or whatever this bone came from and Martha Stewart my own cribbage set. Thank you Taku Lodge.
This ice comes from a nearby glacier. Apparently they use glacier ice to refrigerate at Taku Lodge. Tasted like 1842.
He loved it. Papa - this look proves it was worth every penny!
Back to the mother ship.
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