This weekend was the Vintage Alaskana Garage Sale, the last one, since the lady who collected the items died earlier this year. :( The guy who works at that awesome bookstore downtown was there, and he is now managing her estate (I asked if he was surprised I was looking at books and he was like "NOPE" haha). He must think mom and I special, since ( Read more... )

Today was another gorgeous day! Before we left Juneau, we had breakfast with Christine and Jim. It was weird..as we were pulling in, I suddenly remembered that's where dad and I ate when we came on the ferry!! So weird your brain can suddenly remember things like that. We'll definitely have to come back and adventure with her again! I was excited ( Read more... )

Yesterday mom and I flew to Glacier Bay..first we had to fly to Anchorage. Denali was out, but the engine was in the exact viewing point as the mountain..good thing I've seen it many times lol (I saw one of its glaciers through the clouds, possibly Eldridge). After that short flight we flew to Juneau..I saw some cool glaciers before it clouded up.. ( Read more... )

I'm gonna go down the list of Alaskan glaciers on Wikipedia and post them here! (Or at least the ones I can find haha)


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The sun comes up today at 10:59 (pretty soon!) and goes down at 2:40. Then it'll start getting light later each day! *phew* Yesterday there were fireworks to celebrate the solstice

Margerie Glacier is taller than the Statue of Liberty..it's 350 feet and the statue is 307 feet. Haha woww (go Margerie! :D)

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"We are going to SIT and WAIT for the glacier to calve!" Hahaha omg the guy's voice :P

Dad got here last night..he was like "Where's the aurora? Where's the aurora??" Haha..it's supposed to be active today and tomorrow but it's supposed to snow and be cloudy (it's snowing like crazy now!)

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