Alaska Alaska Mom’s Birthday Trip July 2003 Mom’s Birthday Trip July 2003
Flying in over Canada on Saturday afternoon
Outside our Anchorage Hotel on Sunday Morning
Alaska Railroad Station on Sunday Morning
Taking up space in the Bistro, waiting for lunch
Heading north to Denali National Park on The Alaska Railroad
A view of a river - yes, it was raining!
Jared was on his way to Fairbanks to do a Subway gig...
Anne and I on the deck of the lodge just outside Denali National Park on Monday morning
A view from the rest stop on the way to Kantishna Wilderness Lodge
Our first bear sighting
Dahl sheep entertaining the tourists
Lone Caribou cruising on a river bed
Cloud covered Mount Denali from a distance
Kantishna Wilderness Lodge - Monday afternoon after lunch
Our best view of Mt. Denali (the locals don’t call it Mt. McKinley)
A Dahl sheep playing “King of the mountain”
Our close encounter with a mother Grizzly
The Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge overlooking Talkeetna on Tuesday
Beautiful Downtown Talkeetna - home to the Northern Exposure TV series
The Seward Windsong Lodge on Wednesday
The view from the lodge looking across the street
The birthday girl enjoying the sights
The harbor in Seward
Leaving Seward behind on the Kenai Fjords Fox Island Nat’l Park Cruise on Thursday
Our cruise ship docked at Fox Island
Fox Island Lodge and the best Grilled Salmon lunch on the planet
After lunch photo op
The first glaicer
Sea Lions singing loud
Strange place to have a forest
Approaching the Holgate Glacier
Getting closer to the Holgate Glacier
Small waterfall at the base of the Holgate
Denise holding up the Holgate
The whole group on the return trip to Seward
The Alaska Sea Life Center in downtown Seward - Friday morning
One very large Sea Lion has a little girl’s attention
Downtown Seward - The town with the highest number of bars per capita in Alaska
In route back to Anchorage via the Alaska Railroad on Friday afternoon
Mom, Denise, Rose Ann and Dave dining in comfort
Sunset outside the train window taken at about 10:45 PM on Friday
Happy 80 th Birthday Mom
Where are we going next year ?