Well I am finally getting started on these Alaska vacation posts. This post only covers our first 24 hours...so it just gets better. :) Although, the first 24 hours ended up being the most beautiful day in Juneau's May...and I must say, it was GORGEOUS! We arrived on Wednesday after a four hour flight to Seattle, a four hour layover in Seattle and then a 2 1/2 hour flight to Juneau. We got into Juneau at 9:30 pm Juneau time and 12:30 am Texas time. Emilynn did fantastic on the trip... We had about 3 minutes of screaming on each flight while she tried to figure out how to get comfortable enough to sleep across our laps, and that was about it. She played well. She did great in Seattle for four house...there was a play place in the airport (no a germaphobic's best friend) but a place to play nonetheless. She pushed her stroller around for hours.
We all went to bed at 11pm (it was still dusk outside) and got up very late on Thursday morning. :) We ate at Ross' favorite sandwich place called the Utter Culture :) for lunch. Then Russell, Ross' brother, quickly came in the house and told us that if we were going to go on a plane ride to see the ice fields, that afternoon was the best option for our entire trip. So...we headed to the airport. Ross stayed down on the ground with Emilynn and Mom, Dad, me, Donna and Russell went up to the top of the world. The ice fields between Alaska and Canada, with thousands of feet of ice that are wedged between the mountains. We flew at six thousand feet over glaciers, glacier pools of bright blue, between the tops of mountains high. It was surreal and incredible. Ross and I had taken this trip several years ago and we had the same pilot, Dennis. He is a quiet man, that didn't say much the whole time. He let us just experience some of God's greatest handiwork!
Disclaimer*** My pictures do not even come close to showing you the INCREDIBLENESS of this experience.
That afternoon we went to the beach at Ross' parents house and let Emilynn pick up shells, skip rocks with her daddy, and find sea urchins. We just sat on the beach and watched, and breathed, and were. It was perfect...
Ross has always said that there is nothing quite like a sunny day in Juneau, and I have to agree...it will take your breath away.
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| Watching the planes fly out of Seattle |
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| The next Ward Air ad...our float plane landing before we got on |
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| Airport wildflowers with the Mendenhall Glacier in the distance...wow |
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| The co-pilot, my dad |
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| So excited to see the ice fields again |
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| Mom trying to be excited...her mind changed the minute we took off |
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| Donna and Russell |
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| Downtown Juneau with two cruise ships docked |
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| Our shadow in the low tide pool |
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| Incredible tidal picture at low tide |
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| Looking back at the Taku Glacier |
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| ICE |
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| Devil's Claw at 6000 ft...just the very top of the mountain |
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| Miles of ice at the top of the world |
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| Our shadow in the ice :) |
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| A good co-pilot shot :) |
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| Coming down the Mendenhall Glacier |
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| Landing over the low tide again...there is incredible LIFE in those pools and streams |
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| Our water runway up ahead |
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| Had to have a picture with the chill pilot, Dennis |
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| Headed to the beach |
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| Taking it in |
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| Looking up from the beach to Ross' parents house |
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| Shells and rocks |
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| Daddy and Emilynn |
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| I think she LOVED it |
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| Sunny Fritz Cove looking onto Douglas island |
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| That white spot is an eagle head :) |
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