Glaciers

 Today was an at sea day, but we were going into Glacier Bay to see....glaciers!

Wilderness as far as the eye can see, until it sees cloud cover.

Tiny white dots are goats

I didn't know glaciers could be so gray.

This is the glacier we had come to see.

I love the shapes of the ice chunks

See that rift to the right? It's a bit wider than other crevasses.

That chunk sheared off while I was taking pictures

It was cool to watch! The girls were up on the open air deck and could hear it crack like thunder. I was at one of the windows inside and watched it from a bit of a warmer vantage point, but that meant I didn't hear it. Oh well. I enjoyed watching it fall.

After glacier observation, we played games in the Palm dining room and laughed. Bananagrams first

Then Speed (with mushroom playing cards)

Then we went to a national park conservation program. After the speaker was finished, I followed her so I could ask where I could get my national park passport stamped. She told me where the stamp pad was (up in a bar in the back of the ship that I hadn't been to before)

We traipsed up to the bar and I stamped my parks passport and we looked out the windows

The ship makes a very rhythmic wake

We stared out the window like kids

Then we went back to the room to get ready for dinner. 

Little kids

Stop fighting!

Settle down! 

Katie eats escargot. I tried one (I have eaten one before--the first cruise I took, Jim got some for dinner and I tried one then). They aren't too bad at all! Very buttery and not slimy.

Surf and turf! Yum!

our dinners

Delicious dessert