It started off very hectic. I flew in Sunday the 24th. I slept in and enjoyed Memorial Day with family. My dear friend, Sarah, was in Arizona for the weekend. The 26th through the 29th I spent at the Alaska Leadership Institute. This now seems like it was a year ago. It was an extremely informative conference and I will attend it again if I’m given the opportunity.
The majority of June was spent seeing doctors and getting all my yearly exams, labs, x-rays, and so forth completed. I got Renee, my daughter, into the dentist and we are going to get her cavity free so a year from now she can get braces. I got new glasses and a hearing aid.
For my birthday, I took the kids (Cody & Renee) on an overnight Kenai Fjords Wilderness trip. It started with me waking my kids. “Time to get up. Let’s go! Let’s go! We have to be there before 9 am. You can sleep on the way.” We raced down the highway to get there on time only to be told, “Your boat doesn’t leave until 11 am.” Tiredly we wandered through the open gift shops until we found coffee and juice. Cody stretched on one of the benches and took a nap while Renee and I watched the boats in the harbor and relaxed.
We boarded and arrived at Fox Island just before lunch. We were shown to our cabins and went to the resort for lunch. It was a very relaxing afternoon. We had a chef prepared lunch, dinner, and breakfast. The kids wandered the island and took naps. I was going to purchase kayak tours, but they were charging $135 dollars for the same thing that cost $35 in Seward. Talk about gouging a captured audience.
We were up early the next morning and right after breakfast boarded our tour boat. We sailed out way out of Prince William Sound and around into the Kenai Fjords National Park and up the Northwestern Fjord, a 150 mile round trip. I have menieres and, therefore, have problems with vertigo. I expected that I would be one of the first to get seasick. Cody, Renee, and almost half the other passengers were leaning over the back railing and looking green around the gills. No me!
We got to see: bowhead whales bubble fishing, three other types of whales, walrus, tons of birds, kayakers, waterfalls, and three tidal glaciers. I will post picture later.
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