June 2008 - Cruise to Alaska

Our journey began in Seattle where we saw the space needle, downtown, and got to hang out with some friends from Halifax and Dallas. On Sunday we boarded the ship and got settled in. After a full day at sea, we arrived in Ketchikan where we saw The Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show and went on a zipline and ropes course. The next day we sailed into the Endicott Fjord where we saw lots of icebergs and a glacier. That afternoon we stopped in Juneau to see the Mendenhall glacier and went gold panning. The next day we were in Skagway where we took a combo tour. We started with breakfast in an old bordello, drove up the Klondike highway to White Pass, and crossed the Yukon suspension bridge. After another full day at sea we arrived in Victoria where we took a double decker bus tour of the city before heading back to Seattle.

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Space Needle in Seattle	Looking up	Fish market at night
Original Starbucks logo	Fish market	Us with Jason, Heather, and Connor
Pikes market	View from our hotel	Another view from our hotel
Mini golf on the ship	Seattle skyline	Holland America passing us
On the way to Alaska	First dinner on the ship	A rainbow we saw while eating dinner
On deck with warm blankets	Violin playing during dinner	Formal night
My kind of show!	Two smart folks	Another show on the ship
The Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show	Watch those toes!	Carving a bunny out of wood
Pole climbing	Running the logs	Log rolling challenge
Ketchikan, Alaska	Just a random totem pole	Green rocks
Creek street in Ketchikan	Me with the city sign	Jess with the ship
Us with our gear	Ropes course	The crazy balance beam
Zip line fun	Weeeee!	Wooohooo!
One step at a time	A view of Ketchikan from the pier	The outside pool and hot tubs
Ketchikan harbor	On the way to Juneau	Very calm ocean water
Little icebergs with a waterfall and low clouds	Nice mountains	A glacier in Endicott Fjord
Cool rock mountain	Really blue ice	The inside passage
Contrasting backgrounds	The indoor pool on the ship	Tongass National Forest in Juneau
Getting close to the Mendenhall glacier	The Glacier and icebergs	Mendenhall glacier and waterfall
A closer view of the waterfall	Icebergs with the tide out	More icebergs
Random waterfall	Prospecting for gold in Juneau	I found some!
Leaving Juneau	A magic show on board	Inside the Red Onion Saloon in Skagway
Shots for breakfast	The Saloon	Piano player at the Red Onion
Me with the Madam	Nice painting	Upstairs to the bordello
A bordello room	They didn't want me to leave	Driving to Canada
At the Yukon suspension bridge visitors center	The view from the bridge	Looking South
Looking North	The bridge	Looking across
Another view of the bridge	Looking down while walking across the bridge	I'm a Mountie!
The resident dog Jax	The Klondike highway	Fraser, Brittish Columbia
Coming back into Alaska from Canada	A valley near Fraser	A one pillar suspension bridge
Skagway, Alaska	Shopping district	Downtown Skagway
Main street	A tour bus	A building made of driftwood
Our ship in Skagway	Close to Canada	Us with another ship in the background
Our ship	Leaving Skagway	9:30 at night and still sunny
A comedian/juggler on the ship	Close to sunset...at 10:30pm	Balloon party
Talent show on the ship	A moving walkway to the nightclub	Musicians in the atrium of the ship
Empty casino on the ship because we are close to port	Mountains floating on a cloud...and a whale!	The Empress hotel in Victoria, BC
Entrance to Chinatown	A seaplane in Victoria	The music conservatory
Totem poles in Victoria	Parliament building in Victoria	After our double decker bus tour of the city
What's going on here??	What sound does a moose make?	The high back part of the ship is a nightclub
Piano player in one of the lounges on the ship	The atrium	Our flight back home

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