Kenai Fjords

Thank you Chugiak Electric for this trip :)  But a bigger thanks to Terrance for watching the kids!!!

We won a Phillips glacier cruise from Chugiak electric.  We had such an awesome time being tourists for a day :)

The drive was great, and the boat trip was greater :)

our path:

 

stellar sea lions

 

sea otters

 

humpback whale.  he was making feeding bubbles and chowin' down on little fish
This picture was taken for the whale flipper, but I love how it captured the beautiful
glacial silt water

 

Seeing the 'tidewater' glaciers up close was really neat.  we even saw and heard them calving (dropping chunks of ice into the ocean)

 

There is water everywhere.  It is the most northern temperate rain forest in the world.

 

despite being a rain forest, we enjoyed great weather!

And I'm hooked...

We went camping and it was awesome!  I was pretty worried about sleeping in a tent with all my young kids, but it went great.  The hardest part for the kids was the drive out there.  Henry has quite a set of lungs and he was entertaining himself going

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH"

as loud as he can, which is pretty darn loud in an enclosed car.  We figured out that he can do it to his hearts content into a cup and everyone is happy. 

William has also begun the "are we there yet..." but next time I'll bring more in-car entertainment.  I think he was SUPER excited to get there.  Everyone napped most of the way home. :)

Some pictures:

the weather was awesome... and the views spectacular

 Chillin' at the lake

The campsite

...Ahhh s'mores :)

 

Game night :D  

 

loving being in a sleeping bag (on the rocks, with no pad.... my bad.  good thing they are kids)

 

our fisherman :)

 

Brothers :) 

The drive back was beautiful ...and much quieter