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So I finally (finally) got all my rolls of film developed – including several from our trip to Alaska more than a year ago!
This first chunk is from my Holga – a medium format ‘toy camera’. I’m still learning how to use it well, but I love the rich colors that showed up [...]
The week that Liz was in town, Andrew actually had several days off!
That Monday the 2 of them decided to go hiking – they went to Malibu so Liz could visit the beach as well.
And Andrew, bless his heart, thought to bring me back the trail map [...]
Andrew made plans to see some of his friends play a concert the first weekend of December.
Of course, this concert was in San Francisco.
Only Andrew would look at the calendar, see he has about 48 hours off of work and turn that into a quick trip to visit friends!
We left L.A. [...]
{the following photos and journaling are all by Andrew}
This was my first trip to New York.
Every year Chris pays for the Mix LA staff to fly to the Audio Engineering Society Convention. The convention alternates cities – every other year it’s SF and NYC.
CLA took a separate flight from his staff, [...]
One of my favorite newer Autumn traditions has been visiting a corn maze!!
This is something neither Andrew nor I did growing up, but when we lived in Arizona, Michelle introduced us to the wonder and glory of navigating a corn maze after dark …
Last year (2010) Tucson corn maze (2007) Tucson corn [...]
So I know you’re sad, but …We have now reached the end of our Alaska vacation posts….
It’s OK. … You’ll be OK…. Scotland blog posts begin next week….
As a last good-bye (at least until I get my film from the trip developed) … I wanted to show you the souvenirs Andrew and [...]
After the aquarium …. we walked uphill (several flights of stairs) to Pike Place Market ….
(crowded. SO crowded. But it was a Sunday morning, so what do you expect…. )
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Sunday morning …We docked early early early in Seattle and had to be off the ship by 8a.
Due to flight options in and out of Burbank airport, Andrew and I had about 7 or so hours between when we got off the ship in Seattle and when we had to be at the [...]
(Continuing with our excursion to Butchart Gardens in Victoria, Canada on our last day of the Alaska cruise):
I don’t really have a lot of stories of visiting the Butchart Gardens …
Just lots and lots of photos of flowers.
It was pretty crowded and we mostly felt like we had to rush … [...]
Our final day of our Alaskan cruise …. was primarily spent at sea.
We were headed back down to Seattle (all day Friday and most of the day Saturday) – one of the downsides of doing a round-trip cruise instead of 1-way.
We spent the morning/early afternoon reading and playing games. More Mexican Train [...]
Friday was a day at sea.
Not many stories for this day.
I spent the bulk of the day in bed.
Truly.
In the morning we went to breakfast, but I started to feel a bit of sea sickness.
This day involved covering something like 600 miles or so, all at top speed, all [...]
continuing our Skagway excursion during our Alaska cruise ….
After our wilderness/Gold Rush tour, we were dropped off back in town about 1:30p or 2p. Just about time for lunch – at the Skagway Brewing Company.
Beer-broth chili was filling and warm and great for how cold it was outside ….
We also [...]
… continuing our Skagway Gold Rush tour ….
On the way back to town from the Canada border, we stopped at Liarsville – sounds picturesque, no?
Liarsville is basically a recreation of a mining town or similar, complete with tents set up for the press, a laundry service and a madam.
Thursday morning – our last Alaska port
Before the trip, I was SUPER excited about visiting Skagway. It was my favorite part of the 2002 Alaska cruise I took with my family, and I tried to impress upon Andrew and Julie and Kaitlin how awesome Skagway is…
This was another early-morning docking.
After breakfast [...]
Wednesday morning we took a nap, after the scenic cruising, had lunch and wrote out our postcards…
We docked in Juneau Wednesday afternoon about 2pm.
Our main (and only) plan was to visit Mendenhall Glacier. …
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