You know the Primary song that goes, "Oh what do you do in the summer time, when all the world is green..." Well my favorite answer to that question is, go on vacation! Eric and I really enjoy traveling, and we've tried to take full advantage of our limited breaks together over the past 4-ish years. We planned to go on a graduation trip during May, originally to the Mediterranean, and then to Pacific Northwest. After we planned the trip, we found out that we were moving to China. So what did we do...we decided to go on more trips! Because when you're planning an international move, you have UNLIMITED time (sarcasm). I still to this day don't understand how we managed to get everything done in the 2 or 3 oddly-pieced-together weeks we had at home.
Our first trip was to the Pacific Northwest. We flew into Vancouver and hung out for 2 days, then left for a 7 day Alaskan cruise. We then drove from Vancouver to Kamloops BC to visit our good friends Ferrin and Michelle. From there, we drove to the Olympic Penninsula, near Seattle and enjoyed the "sunshine". All in all, an amazing trip. I'm in love with the perfect combination of ocean, mountains, and greenery that the Pacific Northwest has to offer. I would definitely consider moving there some day.
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| The Lion's Gate Bridge in Vancouver |
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The view from the ship,
it looked about like this every day |
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| The Mendenhall Glacier, near Juneau AK |
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| Aren't we so cute |
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Juneau's port, taken from the tram ride up the mountain.
We had 4 cruise ships traveling the Alaskan coast at the same time |
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We went dog-sledding! Eric was so excited, he was ready to stay
on as a musher. Note the lack of snow, this is their summer training camp. |
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Margerie Glacier, in Glacier Bay National Park, absolutely incredible.
We saw so much glacier calving that day, probably 3 or 4 major events. |
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| Remnants of the glacier, bright blue. |
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The Margerie Glacier is about a mile wide, our cruise ship
got within a quarter mile of the edge! |
