Alaska Cruise 2012 pt 1 of ???

Just returned from a lovely week on a cruise to beautiful Alaska.  The weather actually cooperated for the most part.  I thought I would post a couple of pics for those that check this post, which is mostly family of the Great kind.  These will not be order. . . just because that is how I roll.

The Captain of the ship opened the helicopter pad when we went up the Tracy Arm Fjord.  I know no one in this pic. 

The South Sawyer Glacier calving.

Iceberg.  Most icebergs from the South Sawyer Glacier calve under water,  thus scraping along the bottom and picking up rock and debris.

Obligatory Great photo of family taking pics of other family members taking a photo. 

Salmon swimming upstream near Menndenhal Glacier near Juneau.

This is for Da. . . a little remembrance of our trip across country.  I really wasn't going to go on the trail.  It was closed because of bear activity.  Too bad I saw zero bears that day.

Waterfall by Mendenhall Glacier. No time to walk over by it.  Our bus driver gave us one hour here.  Would have been better to catch the blue bus over.

One of several photos with the painted pics.  Love this one.

This is a picture of the tram to the top of the mountain.  Moo and Squirrel went to the top. 

My pics

Sisu at 4 months

Following pics were done over memorial day weekend down Hillsboro/Portland area. Most were at the International Test Rose Garden. . . or maybe the National. . . well, whatever, they were lovely roses and a loverly family. . .

 Miss A wanted a pic of them jumping down the stairs, so here is ONE of that series.

 Miss A did not want to cooperate, she wanted to be hanging upside down on one of the railings.  I ended up changing positions to get her in the photo a little better.

 Here is where I moved up the stairs to get Miss A in the photo a little better.

 Love this photo of Cynthia and miss Em

 THIS is the family photo that miss A wanted to do.  Oh so cute!

 A group of Japanese tourists walked by right about now and commented "oh, what cute family." Then Miss A snuggled up to her daddy to show how cute she could be.

 Master J's face just cracks me up.

 Back in Hillsboro.  My dogs are super cute. . . well in my opinion that is.  And that is all that counts.

The following are from this year's tulip festival.  I don't know anyone in any of the photos, if people do appear in the photos.  I they represented what you generally see at the fields.

Sisu

We spoke with the lady we bought Ubu from and she is selling a couple of schnauzers for her brother. Another lady had first dibs on picking, so we took the other one. We pick him up in two weeks. I guess I will have to do a little more potty training this time around (Ubu was 10 weeks when we got him), maybe Sisu will be a quick learner.

travel * Kindl e fir e cant type post hahaha

Mountain Moose

I was tired of seeing my blog with the same post, so I thought I should fix that. Ireally don't have much of anything to say, nor do I really want to figure out the font and underlining stuff for this post. This is how it began formatting, so I left it that way. After about four people asking me if I had seen the moose at Cost co , I decided to break down and purchase said moose. Can you tell why I named him Mountain? That is mr. B M W that I watch. He is a cutie and played along with me taking his pic for a little bit. Oh, how I chose that Pic. . . I just decided to post whichever pic popped up as the first one on the list. there you go. My life is not really that interesting, but at least there is a new post that can be up for another three months. Just to remind you all. It is my birthday in about a week and two days. Mark it on your calandars now.