Alaska File #3

Juneau

At around 7 am Tuesday morning we pulled into Juneau. The first thing I noticed (but forgot to take pictures of) is how all of the houses along the shore had no yard. Well, I am sure they had a yard but they all had trees instead of grass. It was like they only cut down just enough trees to make space for a house and that was it. It was kinda cool. Anyway, the ship Captain guy pulled a 360 and parallel parked the beast of a boat and we were in our first port.

Our friend Jesse lives in Juneau so she gave us a private tour. First we went to the Mendenhall Glacier:

We all took turns holding icebergs, and couldn’t resist the photo-op with the old Christmas tree someone discarded in the bay! Dustin made me hold the bigger one of the two

but I guess his brothers were tougher than him!

Our furry mountain goat friend:

This waterfall was uh-mazing! It was huge and we were able to hike down to it thanks for our tour guide Jesse!

Some (ok, Jeremy) felt like doing a little mountain climbing while we were there too:

Only in Alaska could you find a sign like this below. To translate: if you or something around you catches on fire past this point, you are S.O.L.! ps-yes my eyes are closed

Tour guide Jesse also brought us to this Catholic shrine of sorts. This crazy meditation maze got the best of everyone but Kyle and I. We were the smart ones who just took pictures.

Later, Amanda and I did some tourist shopping while the boys rested…or did they?

(click on the first picture below)

Again…romantic dinner pictures:

and romantic Jeremy (Bro-in-law) licking my face.

And our first towel friend from our awesome steward, Leslie!