WHOA! Sooo many comments to reply too, did you miss me peeps? Obviously with a comment box that out of control. Awe I feel the love.
Sooo I went to this little place called Alaska? Did you hear?
Anyways, so fun, SO FUN. Cold, wet, rainy, non beachish fun, but fun. Everyone say YAY for packing only summer clothes and having to wear the same damn sweater everyday...YAY! What do you mean, dude Alaska is cold? Umm sure in the winter, but yo it's summer, 20 hours of daylight summer. How was I supposed to know their summers consist of 6 out of 7 days a week of rain?
BUT my friends I ate, ohh I ate. And friends I drank, ohhh I drank. And friends I DID NOT GAIN WEIGHT! Holy angel of miracles, I stayed the same weight. I don't know how this is possible, maybe from all the swaying and falling of drunken stopper, but otherwise, not sure?
Yes I have pictures. But there are 200 of them. And then there are Carmen and Nate's that I have not seen yet, and I think they have 300. Soooo I will give you the quick re-cap here and tomorrow provide a link with all of them, you know if you are bored and want to live vicariously through me, but be warned, I was drunk about half this trip, so they may suck and repeat a lot.
Carmen and I drove to BC, and the boys flew with Grace. On our way through Banff we saw this. Ya I know SOOO cool. You are speechless. Probably because you have no idea why I am so excited about a log stump thing. BECAUSE PEOPLE THAT BLACK SPECK BACK THERE IS A GRIZZLY BEAR! With her 2 cubs. And yes we were all Japoneseish and pulled over on the side of the road to take this picture, because bears LOVE people, they don't eat them.
This is the hotel Carmen and I stayed at in Sun Peaks. Never heard of it hey? Neither had we. And after getting pulled over TWICE in the period of 10 minutes by BC police, I really needed a break. My dad arranged this room for us. He said it was a little ways out. The lady who answered the phone told us it was a little ways out. They did not clarify the hour drive up a freakin mountain to get to it kinda ways out. But it was worth it. It was beautiful, a little mini town at the top of the mountain. We even crashed a bachelor party, because we are so dang cool.
THE BOAT! Yes it's a mother huge picture, cause it's a mother huge boat. It is indeed a floating city. I did not expect the massiveness and the cityness of the vessel. It contained 5 nightclubs, 6 different eating establishments, 1 casino, 1 pool, 4 hot tubs, 1 spa, 1 hair salon, 1 coffee bar, bazillions of rooms and accommodated 1800 passengers and 900 staff. Who carried 6000 pieces of luggage. Average age of those on board 80, average weight of those on board 300lbs. It was a special crowd.
Yes we are cute! Thanks. Our first night on the boat. The first night of much partying. The first night of absolute drunkenness, for me anyways.
The source of my inebriated state. The martini sample, which I drank every night. It consisted of 6 drinks. All different types of martinis, it was $10!!! It was my favorite thing about the trip. Same with the sushi, hot tub, caffeine and all other kinds of no no pregnancy items.
Ketchikan Alaska. Our first port. Home of the lumber jack show, which was all kinds of awesome. They sawed logs and ran up trees and danced on the logs on water and they were funny! It was great.
Side note, it rains 300 days of the year here. Not the place for me.
The natives in the small nearby town of Saxson, put on a dance for us. This log cabin reminded me so much of the community centre in Old Crow, Yukon, it felt like I should have been wearing a parka and avoiding the crazy family that I lived with.
Ketchikan was obviously my favorite stop because I have 3 pictures of the place! This is Dolly's house on Creek Street. Creek Street used to be the red light district when prostitution was legalized in Alaska. It is a street over looking the river, held up by sticks coming out of the cliffs. Dolly's House is the last bit of originality left, with tours of how the district used to be, and of course everyone dressed up in character. This is Dolly! I totally fit in once I gave them a glimpse of my pole dancing moves.
GRACE! She's so cute, and with such great style. Holding the best pair of shoes on earth. My kinda baby.
The view almost the whole way. Pretty freakin spectacular.
Soo we went to this place called the Hubbard Glacier. Do you see all the tourists running outside to take pictures, in their parkas?! Umm hello, the view is the same from this location and a hell of a lot warmer. We had tourists take our pictures, because they just could not believe people were out side in swim suits in this temperature. They obviously never left inside until this day, and also have never been in a HOT TUB!
Oh shocking, look more booze. This is the champagne sampler and no they are not all for me. Again you get 6 different types of champagne, we all did it! And yes I had a martini sampler after this.
Juneau! There is another Glacier there, which we walked pretty close too. And then we decided to take a nice little hike up through the woods that promised to take us closer. It took us 4 hours. It did not get us closer, merely higher up. It was a fun hike though and my knee held out! Surgery success!
This guy was there to great us at the end of the hike. We turned a corner and bam, 6 feet away was a black bear right there on the trail. My first instinct was to take out my camera, the cruise tourists obviously rubbing off on my wits. Soon after I realized, life could be slightly more important then a really sweet shot of a bear. So we turned around in a slight panic and luckily found a trail guide not to far away. He led us back to the path where the bear disappeared. We heard a rustle. In 3 freakin seconds a bear larger then most cars just pranced up this freakin tree. And that is him, the black blob of bearness.
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This is in Sitka. It was a pointless little town, which I think cruise lines stop at just to get the people off the boat so the staff can do coke and drink copious amounts of booze, because honestly there is nothing there! We got to ride there in a life boat, that was the coolest part of the whole thing. And yes it was cold. And yes that black sweater was the one I wore everyday.
My favorite part of the cruise. This band. The Rachelle Courtney Quartet. We listened to them EVERY night. They were amazing, and wonderful. Before I left I had mentioned to Keith that I wanted to go dancing every night into the late hours of the day. He said he didn't want to dance. I said that would be fine I would dance with the old men. They would love me. Unbeknown to me, the old men all seemed to have been forced into dance lessons at some point in their lives, because they all kicked some serious ass at dancing. So I watched and listened and silently ate my words that I would be the BOMB to these old guys.
After the cruise we spent a night in the Vancouver Marriott. It was fun to have a day in Van, as I have not been there in years. We went to the Science center (yes we are geeks) and we mastered the bus system and went to a little island to shop. It was glorious.
We had a great trip. I don't really want to be home, but I missed Tissue soo much! Do you think he missed me?? Any word on that?
The link of pics tmr!
