Victoria, B.C.

We have been traveling at sea since 1 p.m.on Thursday. The water is been very calm so the traveling has been nice.  we will be in Victoria BC for a couple of hours tonight and then leave around midnight for Seattle. For ship will arrive in Seattle around 7 a.m. It's been a wonderful and relaxing. Early this morning,  in the distance, I saw a whale breach. It was the most amazing thing that I have ever seen. It was too far away to get a half decent photograph. I was shouting for Teresa to come see but it only did it once. throughout the day we have seen whales following at a distance from the boat. We saw an orca following behind  container ship and I was fortunate to get a photograph of that. Today was spent relaxing and we really didn't do too much. Sadly our trip is coming to an end. Tomorrow we will tour around Seattle and then catch a plane ride home. We should arrive around 6 a.m. on Sunday morning.

Ketchikan

We were up bright and early this morning.  Mom wasn't feeling well and decided to stay on board today. She has a mild case of the flu.  We went on a crabbing tours today.  

 We saw Eagles, a Humpback whale, deer with babies and of course crab.  It was fun. The tour ended with a really nice crab lunch.  Our ship sets sail soon for Victoria BC.  We will arrive there around 7:00 pm tomorrow.

Glacier Bay

We woke up at 5:30 to a beautiful morning. The sun was shining and the ship was sailing quietly along. We arrived at Marjorie glacier at around 9 o'clock and stayed here for roughly an hour and a half. It was beautiful. We were all able to see the glacier calving. What an amazing experience to see and hear. The next glacier that we saw was called Lamplugh. It wasn't as large as the Margorie glacier and it contained a lot of silt and rock within it. It was still very interesting to see. After leaving this glacier we gradually made our way up through Glacier bay. There are so nany different glaciers here and they all look so beautiful.  The sun was shining for the entire day and we actually got to take ooff our coats off for a few minutes. We enjoyed a special dinner last night at

 Sabatini's which is their specialty Italian restaurant. It was really nice. All in all it was a wonderful day.

Skagway

What a fun day we had today. It started with us waking up at 2 a.m. We wanted to see the aurora borealis. We walked around the entire ship checking to see if there was any color. We were disappointed as it seems there was some cloud cover. The ship stewards were quite surprised to see and commented on this fact. So off we went back to bed and slept for a couple more hours. We boarded the White Pass Rail at around 8 o'clock. What a fantastic train ride. We saw so much. As we climbed higher up the mountains it got colder and colder.We really enjoyed this train ride and took many pictures. Once we left the train we went for a walk through town. We enjoyed a  nice lunch at the Red Onion saloon. It was fun. Mom has been really spoiled on this cruise. Today she received a card for a free gift at the Diamond international store. She received a  lovely heart shaped necklace. This necklace had a yellow diamond in the center. Mom was just thrilled because she was expecting to receive a charm not such a pretty necklace. Tomorrow we received a special dinner invitation at one of the special restaurants on board. We're looking forward to that. The other day everyone sang happy birthday to mom and they even gave her a special cake and there was balloons on our door. This has been a really fun vacation for us so far. There really isn't too much to see in Skagway. In some ways it's very similar to Juneau. The town is filled with Jewelery Stores.  There are 10 jewelry stores for everyone regular store. Its been fun shopping for jewelry and we look forward to wearing it when we retur.  Tonight we might go and listen to one of the Naturalist talk and look forward to preparing for a visit to Glacier Bay tomorrow.. It should be really beautiful there. We've taken many many pictures and will have a difficult time choosing which ones to include in our albums when we get started on creating it.  We enjoyed watching a magician last night

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Our day in Juneau

Today we spent the day in Juneau. It was a beautiful day. The you sun was shining all day. We went whale watching and then went to see the Mendenhall Glacier. We took a stroll through downtown Juneau as well. We are now getting ready to go out for dinner and then take in a magic show. Tomorrow we're going to get up very early in the morning to see the Northern Lights. This morning we were up bright and early at 430 already. We were looking forward to seeing the whales as we cruised the Inside Passage.  We weren't disappointed.  Yesterday i won a tanzinite necklace during one of the events on the ship.  I couldn't believe how lucky I was.

Tomorrow we are off to Skagway. We are taking the

White Pass rail train ride. We're looking forward to that and hope that the weather is as nice as it was today.

Having an amazing time

Captains dinner last night. It was so much fun.

Seattle - Pike Market

We were up early this morning. It was 5:00 a.m. and all three of us were wide awake. I guess the time difference is affecting us. We had a nice breakfast at 6:30 and then went to the Pike Market. Wow, is it ever beautiful there. The flowers were amazing. We were thinking of Arja - I'm sure she would love to see and paint them. We saw them throwing fish and all the vendors selling their wares. The people here are all so nice. We really enjoyed ourselves this morning.  Our ship is just leaving the port.  It's going to be an amazing trip.