Victoria, Canada

Last stop....Victoria, Canada. We were planning to spend out time with my boss, Wendy and some other friends. When we got off the boat, there was a line for a cab...so Wendy was so kind to just get us a limo for a few hours of touring. It was so awesome.

TERRY FOX

This is a statue of Terry Fox. This description of him is taken word for word from Wikipedia:

Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox CC OD, (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Although the spread of his cancer eventually forced him to end his quest after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 mi), and ultimately cost him his life, his efforts resulted in a lasting, worldwide legacy. The annual Terry Fox Run, first held in 1981, has grown to involve millions of participants in over 60 countries and is now the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research; over C$500 million has been raised in his name.

We thought this was a super cool story, so we had to take a picture.

To read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_fox

BEACON HILL PARK

This was a beautiful park that had great landscaping. There were peacocks running around. I tried to spook them to see if they would open up for us, but had no success. This was just a pretty place to stop.

WORLD'S TALLEST TOTEM POLE

VIEW OF THE CITY

We tried to make it in time for the sunset, but we didn't, because I had to stop and take a picture with the totem pole! But it was still a great view.

SOME COLLEGE

The cool thing about this college was that there were seriously HUNDREDS of wild bunnies hopping around. I don't know that you can see them in this picture, and of course, these were more photos that were lost. Hopefully I will try to get some from my boss who maybe took some.

CRAIGDARROCH CASTLE

AKA...My future home

It was dark, so it is very hard to see its beauty. But I have never seen a castle, so my group was kind enough to humor my desire to see it.

PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS

THE EMPRESS HOTEL

I guess this is a pretty big or well known hotel????

Skagway

On Thursday we ported in Skagway, Alaska. We couldn't decide what to do, so we just walked to town. We saw a lot of boats on the dock. In Skagway they did a lot of train rides. Again, this made us think of the boys, and how much we missed them. So we spent a lot of time watching the trains, filming them and taking pictures for the boys We walked around town and saw some cool building and what not.

After we walked through town we found a cool hike to a small lake. It was a good, pretty hike and a way to kill some time. Unfortunately we managed to loose the pictures from the hike. If we ever are able recover those pictures I will post them.

After the hike we went to a sea food restaurant right off the dock. David had a Salmon Sandwich or something, and he loved it so much he wanted another. But then he decided that if he did, he might get so full it would kill the perfection. I thought that was funny.

All in all, Skagway was a fun day! then back to the boat for a full day on the ocean.



This is the top of a trash can, and David just thought it was SO funny






David being inappropriate with Sarah Palin

Juneau

Salmon Bake

After the glacier, we ported in Juneau, Alaska. Our group had arranged for a lunch-ish meal at the Thane Ore House which was a Salmon Bake. I am not a huge fan of sea food, but this was pretty yummy. They also had a museum there that we were able to go and look around.

Mendenhall Glacier

After the Salmon Bake we shared cabs to go to Mendenhall Glacier. This was so awesome to go see. We were able to go to different view points and look around. They even had some hikes that would get you close to the base of it. Unfortunately time did not permit us to do those hikes. The bright blue parts of the glacier was where a HUGE chunk had fallen off that morning.

Around Town

Once we were done with the glacier we went to Juneau. David wanted to go see the Governor's home (former home of Sarah Palin), but it was too far away. We did see it on the way out to the glacier though. While in town we bumped in to some friends and shopped around. I got a beautiful pearl necklace! Then it was back to the boat.

Funny side note story about this day. By this day I was so wet and cold all the time. Seriously, ALL my clothes were wet from that morning being out on the boat. So I bundled up in as many dry layers as I possibly could. My hair was down and I looked in the mirror and had to laugh. I told David that I looked like a total BOY...he came in to the room and totally laughed at me, and said, "well, at least you look like a 'pretty' boy!" then went on to compare me with Sunshine from Remember the Titans. Anyway, funny little side story.