Part of our summer craziness was an amazing week long cruise to Alaska. As I am till trying to organize the videos we took, along with the majority of the pictures, this blog will serve only as a sneak peak to our wonderful adventure.
All in all, this trip was absolutely “out of this world.” Never in my life have I seen God’s creation in such magnificent magnitude as on this trip to Alaska. I remember standing on our deck with Matt one day as we approached a beautiful glacier at crawling speed. The water we were cruising through was full of mini icebergs, some the same colour blue as the sky. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen, and Matt decided to break the silence with, “This sucks!” See view below.
I’m sure you can understand my immediate confusion… but then he went on to explain, and he was right. There was one thing about this phenomenal experience that sort of did “suck.” He said, “When we go home, we are going to show people these pictures and tell people how awesome it was to see this glacier, but it won’t measure up. The pictures look like crap compared to what we are seeing now with our own eyes, and there are no words to describe how magnificent this is, or how it makes me feel right now.”
This is true. Looking at these pictures doesn’t really capture the image of the real thing, and I can’t begin to explain to you how beautiful it truly was.
Stella learned to walk quite independently on this cruise. I guess the swaying of the ship really challenged her to master her balancing skills. By the end of the cruise, she was walking EVERYWHERE on her own. The balcony was a safe place for her to explore. Here are 2 pics of our view.
Stella did great with the business of the whole trip, and even managed to fully adjust to the time change (3 and 4 hours back). Unfortunately this full adjustment showed itself the second last day of our cruise… just in time for us to go home and make the switch again!
Stella got into a little trouble one nap time when we entered to room to discover this.
Her bed was full of 2 partially eaten apples, and an empty vine of grapes with the occasional spit out of grape skin. Looks like she tried to share the feast with Bunny too.
She has somehow managed to grab these fruits from a near by table. Apparently our daughter has super human stretchy arms because we still cant figure out how she achieved this in such a stealthy manner. We heard nothing on the monitor, but I think she wanted it that way. It was a funny sight to see, but we are so thankful she didn’t choke. God is good.
Almost every day we took an “excursion” trip of sorts while at port. The one day it was a several hour boat ride through the Alaskan fjords. This was amazing! I have video, but you’ll have to wait! For now, here are 2 pics.
Last this I want to show you in this post is a beautiful picture taken by my bro-in-law Spencer. We say more bald eagles than I can count on this trip, but this one was the most phenomenal. One day while we were at port, we ventures onto the balcony only to see a huge bald eagle perched a mere 10-15 meters away from us on a light post. It sat there so still and quiet as people took pictures… I seriously think it was posing for us!
I hope these pictures and few short stories give you somewhat of a glimpse into our Alaskan vacation. Matt and I are so thankful for the opportunity we had to go on this trip and see the beauty we saw. More pictures and VIDEOS are to come as soon as I can get them all organized.
















