As promised, here is the second set of Alaska pictures. I forgot to do those last pictures big, so let me know if you like them big better. Also, some are un-edted. It’s my new pledge that I don’t have to edit every picture to blog it, I know you don’t mind.
We hiked out to a beach one day, it was a really cool hike through like an old mining village with lots of creepy old buildings like this one. We had some excitement on they way back when our body guard Krista, had a little run-in with an elderly lady. Lol. Never a dull moment with Krista.
The end of the hike
We interrupted this eagle’s peacefulness. He was sitting perched up on this log, and Brooks and I tried really hard to get close without him flying away, but I guess he didn’t like the paparazzi much.
Eli was a wiggle worm and wanted to be “DOWNNNN” the whole time so he could get as close as he wanted to the water and throw in everything in site.
Here he is tromping through the clams to get to the water.
This of course made me extremely nervous.
Boyd helped him pick out rocks and such to throw.
The wind up
And the release.
Although it’s cloudy, foggy and rainy, it’s still quite beautiful
Such a boy, and I love him to death
Cam and Aubbers
These logs/trees/whatever were really neat, wonder what they’re from.
If you don’t know my precious niece Allie, you ought to. She has more personality than anyone I know. She is usually dressed in a crazy way, in a dress and combat boots, pearls and a swimming suit, or in this case– a princess shirt with a multi-colored hat. Although she looks extremely mad at me for taking this picture, she is in fact posing for me as I said “Allie give me your BEST mad face” and this is what she gave me. Don’t know if I could have ever dreamed of a better mad face. I love you Allie!
Whale Watching
Thanks to Cameron and Alicia’s ‘get out there and go’ persistence to discover Alaska, we all got to go Whale Watching! It was super fun and one of my favorite Alaska memories over the last 4 years. Last year, I saw two bears, this year we got to see some amazing whales. I did not expect it to be as great as it was. Eli absolutely loved it, even though I almost left him at home (this was a no-nap day). He would say “SHISHIE SHISHIE” whenever we saw a whale and loved looking through the binoculars (even though I doubt he could see through them). I even bought him a little killer whale to remember the trip (although it caused some controversy with the other cousins)
The boys chattin’ it up
He was always on the lookout
Alicia, Hailey and Cameron. They got to leave the baby at home with Sharon
View of Juneau from the boat, see the glacier?
Eli loves Uncle Todd, he’s his buddy
With Daddy drinking “Chockey” (hot chocolate). It was ‘all you can drink’ hot chocolate and Allie and Eli really took that to it’s fullest meaning.
The most exciting part of the trip was seeing a humpback whale breech (jump) several times. This wasn’t even the ‘good’ one. He (or she I guess) jumped all the way out of the water and spun around on it’s back about 3 times RIGHT next to our boat. The tour guides said that is EXTREMELY rare and someone must have been wearing their lucky whale underpants. It was spectacular!
Closer shot of the glacier from the water
We also saw killer whales which they said only happens once every 2 weeks, we were just lucky! They travel in families, there were about 8 of them.
Eli and Hailey have to be watched very closely. Since they are so close in age, they are usually fighting over a toy or getting into some mischief somewhere (like finding my stash of fudge covered Oreos and eating the ENTIRE box…toddlers…) This time however, I found them wrapped up in a relaxing game of chess. It was hilarious, I don’t know how to play chess, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t actually playing, but it looked like it!
4th of July parade. Hannah was the Grand Marshall for the parade so we went down there to see her. It was FREEZING COLD, Eli has his hands in his little pocket here.
Our little super star!!!!
That’s it for our Alaska pic! Check out Facebook as Cameron and Alicia have posted some pics and videos and I’m sure Laci will too. Eli and I go home to AZ tomorrow and although I’m looking forward to it, I’m NOT looking forward to the heat. Alaska and Seattle have sure been a nice break.
Seattle pics in the next few days…
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