1. Alaska Alaska Mom’s Birthday Trip July 2003 Mom’s Birthday Trip July 2003

2. Flying in over Canada on Saturday afternoon

3. Outside our Anchorage Hotel on Sunday Morning

4. Alaska Railroad Station on Sunday Morning

5. Taking up space in the Bistro, waiting for lunch

6. Heading north to Denali National Park on The Alaska Railroad

7. A view of a river - yes, it was raining!

8. Jared was on his way to Fairbanks to do a Subway gig...

9. Anne and I on the deck of the lodge just outside Denali National Park on Monday morning

10. A view from the rest stop on the way to Kantishna Wilderness Lodge

11. Our first bear sighting

12. Dahl sheep entertaining the tourists

13. Lone Caribou cruising on a river bed

14. Cloud covered Mount Denali from a distance

15. Kantishna Wilderness Lodge - Monday afternoon after lunch

16. Our best view of Mt. Denali (the locals don’t call it Mt. McKinley)

17. A Dahl sheep playing “King of the mountain”

18. Our close encounter with a mother Grizzly

19. The Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge overlooking Talkeetna on Tuesday

20. Beautiful Downtown Talkeetna - home to the Northern Exposure TV series

21. The Seward Windsong Lodge on Wednesday

22. The view from the lodge looking across the street

23. The birthday girl enjoying the sights

24. The harbor in Seward

25. Leaving Seward behind on the Kenai Fjords Fox Island Nat’l Park Cruise on Thursday

26. Our cruise ship docked at Fox Island

27. Fox Island Lodge and the best Grilled Salmon lunch on the planet

28. After lunch photo op

29. The first glaicer

30. Sea Lions singing loud

31. Strange place to have a forest

32. Approaching the Holgate Glacier

33. Getting closer to the Holgate Glacier

34. Small waterfall at the base of the Holgate

35. Denise holding up the Holgate

36. The whole group on the return trip to Seward

37. The Alaska Sea Life Center in downtown Seward - Friday morning

38. One very large Sea Lion has a little girl’s attention

39. Downtown Seward - The town with the highest number of bars per capita in Alaska

40. In route back to Anchorage via the Alaska Railroad on Friday afternoon

41. Mom, Denise, Rose Ann and Dave dining in comfort

42. Sunset outside the train window taken at about 10:45 PM on Friday

43. Happy 80 th Birthday Mom

44. Where are we going next year ?