Didn’t have a chance to post while gone… OUCH!… we got back last night … late… late start to the day but first order for me… mow the lawn… since it was raining the days before we left I didn’t get it done then and so it now has been about 2 weeks and it was more like cutting hay.. and it is damn HOT!… we have been enjoying 64 deg days almost all the time up on the cruise… and that was the highs… I get home and have to get out and mow and it is 100!!! according to jeep temps and 97 by the weather station… all that water I soaked up in all those rainy spots is gone… along with a bunch more… I also picked the tomatoes and peppers… got big box full and we only have 3 cherry tomato plants and 3 pepper plants… and I didn’t think they would do anything since they got drowned in May…
OK, on to the daily of the Alaska Cruise…
These days are all being posted late as we never did get internet and I was not about to pay $300 for a weeks worth on the ship so we did with out… although our phones worked , sometimes, such that we got limited emails, and phone calls…
Friday the 9th, It was the beginning of our planned summer vacation. This year, in anticipation of Sherrie retiring we had planned the Alaska Cruise. We had heard that it was a great cruise and we had not seen the South East Alaska area. We had been to Alaska (Anchorage, Kenai, almost Denali, etc.… ) way back in 1995. We took the whole family that year and drove all over . This year we were to just get to Anchorage, take the train to Seward and get on the ship and weave our way back to Vancouver and fly home… Actually the original plans were to go up and spend 2 or 3 days before the cruise and do a few things over that we did 20 years ago then go to Seward and get on the ship and maybe take a few days at the end… but she decided not to retire on July 5th and will work on so we cut the trip to just enough for the cruise…
I had set up to use some of my FF miles from all that work travel I did over the years… that was sure nice to fly first class all the way and thanks to AA when they put in a direct flight to Anchorage from Dallas this last fall. With the direct form Dallas we didn’t have to leave OKC till about noon and still hit Anchorage at 7:30pm (there time = 10:30pm our time)… In Dallas we opted for a lunch as they would serve dinner on the plane but ???? who knows about plane food, even first is not great at times… so the big deal was ….. Popeye’s in the airport..
not real exciting but shrimp po-boys are always good… Sure glad we did because I had picked the chicken dinner for the flights (option grilled chicken or vegetarian lasagna)… and the chicken was dry, and pretty much tasteless… so we didn’t partake of much of that…
Before we took off I grabbed this shot…
A bit unusual to see a jet engine truck flashing down the taxi-way? but he was moving it on… !
Selfie with the camera… proof we sat up front for once… man we are some ugly people (at least I am )…
Anchorage airport welcoming committee…
Once in Anchorage, after a bit of hurry up and wait, we did get our shuttle to the hotel. and being light out at 9pm we decided to take a bit of a walk before our early morning train ride… so we walked toward downtown…
The Fur Factory was here back then but I think they are selling a bit more, or less fur?
The old theater is still there but closed and in bad shape… it used to run a show of the Big Earthquake back in the 60’s but looks pretty run down now..
The flowers here are amazing… everywhere they are just so full and yes this picture was taken at about 9:30 or 10pm… and no light added… wish my hanging baskets looked so good…
The flowers are just so bright and vivid here that it was amazing…
On our route back to the hotel we came on this… Didn’t even know she had a bar and much less way up here…
We had to get to bed even though it was daylight out… as we were expected to be at the train station by about 5am and that only left us about 5 hours to sleep…
WD0AJG