Juneau

This next post is about Juneau. Here we went and saw the Mendenhall glacier which was really cool. Juneau was not my favorite town....It was to comercalized and had a typical big city feel. Oh well it was still cool to see the glacier.





The picture with the Walmart in it has an interesting story. Our tour guide told us that 325 days out of the year this picture is impossible to get because of the fog but because the weather was so unusually warm(in Alask 80 degrees is considered a heat wave) it was very visible. Notice the people swimming in the chilling water ha ha I guess anything to get a tan right. This is the glacier and a water fall next to it.





The bear sign is what we saw while we were walking on a trail... I was disappointed that we didn't see a bear. AE about had a heart attack from excitment when he heard that a gun of Wyatt Earps was in the Red Dog Saloon. Anyone that knows AE knows how much he LOVES westerns and wishes he was a cowboy. Wyatt Earp was an old cowboy. The only way we could take pictures was to eat or drink something. Needless to say we bought two glasses of some of the most expensive and best rootbear on tap in our lives. I have never seen AE lay down money for something so fast. ha ha. It was cool and it made him happy. Juneau was cool but I don't think I would visit again. Oh and we saw the governors mansion....Smaller than a lot of houses in Utah.

Alaska! and some of Canada...

So I am going to do this update in different posts because our picture total was around three hundred. I gave AE the camera the whole time and needless to say he went wild! ha ha but he did take amazing pictures and the main picture on our blog is one that he took. Oh and we were not prepared for the sunny eighty degree weather we had the whole time so I am pretty much wearing the same shorts in each picture. I don't care I was on vacation ha ha. These first pictures are from Ketchikan Alaska.
This is what we saw off the side of our boat. So cute! Ketchikan was one of our favorite places because it had such a fun small town feel to it. How would that be to have a house overlooking the ocean.... I would be in heaven.

Just some more picture of Ketchikan





In Alaska but mainly in Ketchikan there are totem poles EVERYWHERE. I have never seen AE so fascinated by something in my life. I could not pull him away from them. We even visited a totem pole heritage center with some of the oldest totem poles in the world! It was so cool.





We also visited an eagle sanctuary and a salmon fish hatchery. This was really cool to see how they hatched salmon and released them into the wild. The picture of me below is what AE calls my "black mail picture." If that's the worst it gets than I am ok with that haha.





We ate the most amazing fish and chips and coconut shrimp at this little place. It was hilarious because there were two little stands right next to eachother and one was way crowded and had a huge line while the other had no line at all... which would you choose?





We loved Ketchikan and would go back in a heart beat. Oh and we rode that little red tram to the top of a mountain which was so cool!

Get well soon dad!

My dad has been sick and they suspect the swine flu.... I am not even joking. They gave him the same medicine they have been giving people for it. Curse the swine flu! Get well soon dad! We love you.

I promise I will update this weekend about our cruise! It is amazing how busy we have been since we got back....I am not even in school this semester.... how did that happen?

oh dear

So today our dishwasher pooped out on me. While I was washing the dishes by hand I started crying....yep it really is that time of the month. The worst part about this story is that we are so close to paying off AE's truck and therefore will have no car payments so buying a new one is out of the question for at least a couple months.....I am sure I will cry again.

On the other hand today was good because I have lost two pounds this week, didn't gain weight from our cruise and I have gone 3 days without eating a sweet! It looks as if me excercising and going off sweets is working. Also we booked a trip to Chicago about three months ago and will finally be there over the fourth of July! I can't wait! I can't wait to be sitting in Wrigley field eating my hot dog. Some of life is good.

I will post pictures from our cruise soon but I am feeling a little bummed out at the moment...