Resurrection Bay/Seward, AK

We traveled down to Seward on Sunday, about a 2 1/2 hour drive from us, and went on a dinner cruise. We crusied on Resurrection Bay to Fox Island for dinner and saw the wildlife along the way. We were quite fortunate to see so much on the 3 hours tour. The weather was perfect and we saw Bald Eagles, Orca whales!!, & I saw a Puffin but didn't get a picture of him. This was a big deal to see the whales because people don't always get to. Even the crew and captain of our boat were freaking out because when we docked for the dinner the whales swam inland to our boat and under the dock, it was soooooo cool. I was in shock and didn't get a picture of it but I was standing on the dock and three were all in a line swimming straight at us.



On the boat ready to go!
And going...




Chris spotted this Eagle far off and then it flew right above our heads! I was just watching it and then was like, Oh I should take a picture! They said there are a pair of Eagles for every mile(?) I think of shore line in the bay. We saw another eagle in the nest on shore and I suppose this one was out getting their food.


The Whales!




Skipping rocks after supper.

What is sightseeing without buying a little something at the gift shops? Of course, for Roman lol One from Memaw Popham and one from his mommy :)

Matanuska Glacier

Chris's parents are in Alaska and we've been doing some sightseeing. This is the Matanuska Glacier. It is a couple hours drive northeast of where we live. It is a 27 mile long Glacier that goes back into the Chugach Mountains. You can go to a place and get on the glacier but its a little dangerous so we didn't go. In some spots they say it reaches 10,000 feet and at its widest is 4 miles. It used to occupy the entire valley you see here.



Also a pretty stream we saw along the way. The water is very blue and lovely which makes me believe it is glacier water.

It helps to click on the pictures to make it bigger so you can see the detail of things better.

Our Little Corner of the World

Finally a few pictures of our new casa. We live in a quad-plex, we got lucky and got one on the end and on the corner of the street.

This is the front arctic entry way...fancy for two doors I think lol

To the immediate right there is the front den (taken from above) Roman's rocking chair too that will go in his room later.

To the left are the stairs.


Straight ahead is the other den.

Off that is the kitchen.


And the dining area.


The upstairs are the bedrooms and laundry closet. Our room isn't much too look at right now. We still need a dresser and stuff so it looks bare.
This is Roman's room right next to our room.
There is Mr. Bear in the window waiting for the bees to get there so he can steal the honey. (I'm going to do his room in bees)

Everything is white and we aren't going to paint anything because we would have to paint it back white and that doesn't sound fun. We will only be here for 2 1/2 years so we decided "no".