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I'm back from Valdez! Guess who got a cold there? Me. Joyy. We drove there on Wednesday..I felt sniffy and kept getting worse as the day went on. The weather was rainy at one point but got better around the Black Rapids area. Then it was pretty nice and sunny the rest of the way. The weather was reaaallly nice in Valdez..it actually felt HOT cause it was so sunny there haha. It may even have been more sunny than when we went last year. We drove to the bed and breakfast we were staying at..a bunch of mom's coworkers were there so we said hi and then brought our stuff into the house. The owners had a cute dog that was the same breed as the family in Wisconsin..AND her name was Maggie! SO WEIRDD haha. I picked her up and she licked me like crazy hehe. We got dinner after that..my throat started feeling weird then. I went to bed feeling bleh
We had to get up at 5 something the next morning..my throat was hurting then. Breakfast was at 6..I took some Motrin and then went to eat. Del (the lady who owns the business) made an AMAZING breakfast all by herself..there was eggs, bacon, biscuits and gravy, a fruit platter, etc. I felt sorry for her doing all that work haha. Then we went to the boats to start fishing for silver salmon! The weather was still pretty nice but got cloudier as the day went on. We didn't have to go very far to fish..we spent a lot of the day out there trying to find them and catch them. I caught two! Yay! Hehe. Mom was the only one to catch the limit (six). The charter lady had to beat the fish with a club so it wouldn't flop everywhere..I couldn't watch that..ugh. We eventually went back to the harbor and the charter lady filleted them for us and we also went to get them frozen so they'd keep till we got home. After that we had dinner with our little group from the boat (we were split into two groups). I got some Theraflu at the store and sipped that while waiting for dinner to come. I guess it helped a little. After dinner we went back to the B&B and I took a couple hour nap. I also tried to get online but my computer couldn't find their connection. Mom went back to the store and got some Nyquil for me so I took that and went to bed
Yesterday morning I woke up and actually felt better..my throat didn't hurt much but I was sniffy and my voice sounded like I was about to die (that always happens when I get a cold..ugh). We had breakfast (oatmeal, eggs, bacon, toast, etc. Poor lady! Haha) and then went to the dock to wait for the wildlife/glacier cruise! It seemed like most of the people on the boat were German haha..they had a German translator so we had to listen to the narration in English and in German (Tina I totally thought of you haha). :P The person next to us was from Canada (and she actually said "eh" too haha) and spoke English so that was nice. The weather was terrible..it was raining and foggy and obscuring the mountains..so the ride was rather boring. We got to Columbia Glacier's icefield and couldn't even go very far cause of all the ice..we couldn't even see the glacier cause of the fog. There were no towering icebergs either..the captain said that was cause the glacier wasn't resting on the sea floor anymore and the water could get under it and erode it. Then we had lunch and made our way to Meares Glacier..the ride seemed to take foreverrr haha. Then finally the glacier came into view..eee! We got a half mile from it (though it seemed closer since it's so big haha). The front of it is a mile long so it's a pretty big glacier. OMG it calved so many times for us!! (It was loud too..like thunder!) And you could hear it creaking and groaning and splitting! SO AWESOME OMG. Definitely an active (advancing!) glacier. :D I kept jumping up and down and yelling and I was seriously shaking haha. I got soaked again and the screen on my camera died..you can still take pics with it but all you see on the screen is white..I have to get a new camera now (oh what I do for glaciers :P). We started to leave but it was still calving! I think we should have skipped Columbia Glacier and spent more time at Meares (we only spent 30 minutes). We took all that time getting there..and it was definitely being active..so we should stay longer. On the way back we saw a couple orca whales and a humpback whale too. Mom and I both agreed this cruise was lacking something..and it didn't spark something in us. The weather didn't help either. Ah well. After we got back to port we had dinner with Beth (the Canadian) and went back to the B&B. We talked with Del and went to bed
I woke up this morning feeling kinda worse than yesterday..maybe cause I was tired? Del fixed us breakfast again and then we left. I tried to find a Valdez shirt before driving home but didn't find any really good ones. I took a nap twice on the way home. We had lunch/dinner at Delta Junction. There was fresh snow on the Wrangells and the Alaska Range too..eep! Termination dust! *hides* When we got to Fairbanks we stopped at my apartment to get some things and now here I am at mom's house (I have to do laundry tomorrow). Yay
Pics (and maybe my videos) tomorrow!
We had to get up at 5 something the next morning..my throat was hurting then. Breakfast was at 6..I took some Motrin and then went to eat. Del (the lady who owns the business) made an AMAZING breakfast all by herself..there was eggs, bacon, biscuits and gravy, a fruit platter, etc. I felt sorry for her doing all that work haha. Then we went to the boats to start fishing for silver salmon! The weather was still pretty nice but got cloudier as the day went on. We didn't have to go very far to fish..we spent a lot of the day out there trying to find them and catch them. I caught two! Yay! Hehe. Mom was the only one to catch the limit (six). The charter lady had to beat the fish with a club so it wouldn't flop everywhere..I couldn't watch that..ugh. We eventually went back to the harbor and the charter lady filleted them for us and we also went to get them frozen so they'd keep till we got home. After that we had dinner with our little group from the boat (we were split into two groups). I got some Theraflu at the store and sipped that while waiting for dinner to come. I guess it helped a little. After dinner we went back to the B&B and I took a couple hour nap. I also tried to get online but my computer couldn't find their connection. Mom went back to the store and got some Nyquil for me so I took that and went to bed
Yesterday morning I woke up and actually felt better..my throat didn't hurt much but I was sniffy and my voice sounded like I was about to die (that always happens when I get a cold..ugh). We had breakfast (oatmeal, eggs, bacon, toast, etc. Poor lady! Haha) and then went to the dock to wait for the wildlife/glacier cruise! It seemed like most of the people on the boat were German haha..they had a German translator so we had to listen to the narration in English and in German (Tina I totally thought of you haha). :P The person next to us was from Canada (and she actually said "eh" too haha) and spoke English so that was nice. The weather was terrible..it was raining and foggy and obscuring the mountains..so the ride was rather boring. We got to Columbia Glacier's icefield and couldn't even go very far cause of all the ice..we couldn't even see the glacier cause of the fog. There were no towering icebergs either..the captain said that was cause the glacier wasn't resting on the sea floor anymore and the water could get under it and erode it. Then we had lunch and made our way to Meares Glacier..the ride seemed to take foreverrr haha. Then finally the glacier came into view..eee! We got a half mile from it (though it seemed closer since it's so big haha). The front of it is a mile long so it's a pretty big glacier. OMG it calved so many times for us!! (It was loud too..like thunder!) And you could hear it creaking and groaning and splitting! SO AWESOME OMG. Definitely an active (advancing!) glacier. :D I kept jumping up and down and yelling and I was seriously shaking haha. I got soaked again and the screen on my camera died..you can still take pics with it but all you see on the screen is white..I have to get a new camera now (oh what I do for glaciers :P). We started to leave but it was still calving! I think we should have skipped Columbia Glacier and spent more time at Meares (we only spent 30 minutes). We took all that time getting there..and it was definitely being active..so we should stay longer. On the way back we saw a couple orca whales and a humpback whale too. Mom and I both agreed this cruise was lacking something..and it didn't spark something in us. The weather didn't help either. Ah well. After we got back to port we had dinner with Beth (the Canadian) and went back to the B&B. We talked with Del and went to bed
I woke up this morning feeling kinda worse than yesterday..maybe cause I was tired? Del fixed us breakfast again and then we left. I tried to find a Valdez shirt before driving home but didn't find any really good ones. I took a nap twice on the way home. We had lunch/dinner at Delta Junction. There was fresh snow on the Wrangells and the Alaska Range too..eep! Termination dust! *hides* When we got to Fairbanks we stopped at my apartment to get some things and now here I am at mom's house (I have to do laundry tomorrow). Yay
Pics (and maybe my videos) tomorrow!