Monday, November 8, 2010
Alaska cruise August 18th
After leaving Ketchikan, we continued north up to Juneau. The weather caught up with us and it rained/sprinkled pretty much the whole time we were there. Going through the fjord on the way to Juneau produced a great opportunity for some pictures of the beauty of Alaska. We also got to go out to the Mendenhall Glacier which is just outside of Juneau.
I woke up early to take some pictures of the sunrise, and this is what it was.
Here is a glacier reaching its finger down to the bay.
I don't think you could fit one more pine tree on that chunk of island.
We had all sorts of icebergs float by on our way towards Juneau. They were the prettiest blue color.
The sun finally peeked through the clouds.
Some more runoff towards the bay.
We passed a big glacier that came all the way down to the water.
You can see the color in the ice even at a distance.
Kristin, Mason, and Rachel posing with the glacier.
Dawn got in on the picture as well.
On deck checking out the glacier.
There were very few times we saw land without being covered in trees. Here is photo proof of that.
It looks almost like crystal.
The terrain up there is awesome.
Welcome to Juneau! It was a city carved out of the trees and mountain. The trees came right down to the city and the locals say they see bears and all sorts of wildlife right there in town. The low clouds and fog on the mountain made it look really cool.
Here is Kristin posing in downtown Juneau.
Mason, Travis, and even Uncle Gerald hung out with us in Juneau. This is one of the few breaks in the rain.
Heading towards town.
Kristin and Mason with the bay in the background.
Across the bay from the city is an island where a bunch of the residents live. They ferry across to the city.
Mason hangin out with us.
Here are some shops on the pier.
We found us a bear there in the city.
Kristin found another one.
Rachel and Kristin, with fog coming out of the trees.
Rachie and Dawn posing too.
More fog coming down the mountain.
Taking time to pose before heading back on the bus. Madolyn was worn out and decided to take a nap.
A happy family picture. We decided to head back and let Madolyn take a nap before heading out to the Mendenhall Glacier.
Here comes our bus to take us back to the port.
Madolyn was so tired she slept all the way from the city on the bus and onto the cruise ship into her bed.

Waiting for the bus to take us to the Mendenhall Glacier.
Rachel and Kristin on the bus to the Mendenhall Glacier.
The rain really started to come down once we got in the bus.
This bald eagle was doing some fishing from the bank. Come to find out, they don't do the dramatic swoop into the water to scoop out the fish everytime. Our tour guide told us that during the salmon spawn, they will just sit on the bank and hop on the fish and pull it out.
Some chunks of ice from the glacier.
You can see the Mendenhall Glacier on the left and a rushing waterfall/river on the right.
Due to our group being so big and having a hard time getting everyone together for one picture, it took us three times to get all of us in at least one picture.
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