Seattle Vacation/Alaskan Cruise Part 1 (days 1-5)

During the later part of May hubby and I took 10 whole days to be together... This year we will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, but since they don't have Alaskan Cruises the month of our anniversary we booked our cruise in May... We left only a few days after Princess Bride and Sir Knight's wedding.

Day 1: we got to Seattle and rented a car, then we had dinner and drove to a friend's home north of Seattle where we were staying for the first few days of our trip.

Day 2: we went to the Seattle Temple and spent the rest of the day just exploring . Neither of us had ever been to this part of the Northwest and we had a GREAT day...

Day 3: we went to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. We saw a visiting Artist name Preston Singletary in the Hot Shop, (you can watch a youtube video of him working on a different piece, and in collaboration with another artist,) there are other videos and even some live streaming stuff on the museum's site...) His heritage is Tlingit. (Eskimo, while on our cruise we learned that there are many distinct Eskimo Cultures.) We saw lots of the Tlingit culture's ancient and updated art work and could recognize the beautiful similarities in his work. It really helped to start our Alaska trip in a bang-up way... In this snap of him working his piece is an Orca Sculpture.

Day 4 (Cruise Day 1): We set sail at 4 pm and had fun exploring the ship, ate too much and simply enjoyed spending undivided time together... Something we do NOT get enough of in everyday life. As we left the Port of Seattle we were both struck by the beauty of the day and the wonders of 0ur Heavenly Father's world. I personally have committed myself to taking better care of my small corner of His beautiful and amazing world. We do not have the wonderful seas, but we have many beautiful places that need to be well cared for.

Day 5 (Cruise Day 2): The southern Alaskan Coastline was breathtaking as was most of the scenery we witnessed on our cruise. I took 100s of pictures. Each minute on a cruise ship can be as active (activity enhanced) or as leisurely (quite places abound on board believe it or not...) as you like. We chose to spend our time mostly enjoying the scenery and our time together... We spent many hours just watching whales frolic (there is a group of them in this picture but they were not very close to the ship...) We saw a great deal of wildlife and I would go again in a MINUTE. We talked, laughed and celebrated why we got married 25 years ago... We are STILL best friends!