Alaska

I got back from Alaska yesterday after 7 days of sitting on a boat doing nothing much more than eating and sleeping.

I used to play a computer game when I was a little kid called the Yukon Trail. I played it a lot so I remembered, pretty much photographically, every place and person in that game. When we got to Skagway I was imagining dirt roads and old saloons everywhere and to my surprise I wasn't too far off. Although the buildings aren't the same ones that stood in the 1890's the city has been re-built to try to replicate the saloons, brothels and stores from the time of the gold rush. Ketchikan was slightly more modern and a fishing town but just by looking at it you could tell that the town held a lot of history. Glacier Bay was incredible. The Ice all around the ship as we slowly circled the bay, passing huge glaciers and steep slopes was pretty surreal.

Although the experience of visiting Alaska was awesome, I did get extremely bored on the ship at times since there were not many activities and the average age of everyone on the ship was about 98 years old. If I were to visit Alaska again it would have to be during winter with skis and a helicopter. I took a lot of pictures so I won't be posting all of them but I'll put up the best ones. Here they are! Let me know what you think!