Anchorage & Seward

Anchorage is a big city.  We took a tour of the city on a bus.  It was pretty interesting.

For instance, the photo below was commissioned by the high school class of 1971.  They had this put on the side of their school building and hired the painter to hide "71" in the mural.

Peggy Crowe came and got us on Saturday and we went touring to Seward with her.  

We rode up a mountainside via tram and got to see some beautiful vistas.  

I love the green of this mountainside.  

Peg drove us to Seward where we did a pretty easy hike up to see a glacier.

This glacier has receded a lot in the last 100 years.

  

Just before leaving for the airport we had breakfast at Gwennie's.  I had French toast and reindeer sausage again.  They gave me so much sausage that there was no way I could eat it all.  

This is Jen.  She was our tour guide for a week.

On our way back from Seward we saw this mama black bear with her three cubs just off of the road.

I love how the glacier has so much color and texture.

We spent our Sunday by going to church with an aunt and uncle of Erica Hoffman.  Later in the day, Jay and Peg picked us up and took us to their daughter, Janelle's home.  We spent our afternoon and evening with the Crowe family.  It was a lot of fun and we enjoyed being with family.  We laughed and talked and just connected with family we didn't know.

It was an amazing trip.  I'd like to go back again some day.