Alaska Bound!

Packed and ready, we flew from Houston to Vancouver, and boarded our ship for the week, the Celebrity Millennium. Our veranda stateroom with Concierge Service was very nice and our cabin attendant, Ofelia welcomed us! We left Vancouver late in the afternoon and everyone was on deck as we left. Our first day was spent cruising with a chance to check out the ship.
Our ports were Ketchikan- Misty Fijords Cruising in the rain. Icy Strait Point - Whale Watching, Lunch in Hoonah, Juneau - Scenic Flight over Ice Fields and hike to Mendenhall Glacier hike, Skagway - White Pass Railroad, Hubbard Glacier - Cruising Hubbard Glacier Seward- Our cruise ended and our land tour started. Land Tour...Bus and Train Seward - Windsong Lodge...toured the Alaska Sealife Center, did a great whale watching tour, had lunch at Fox Island Anchorage-Marriott....we walked around the Summer Soltice Festival and went to a museum, ate dinner at Humpy's Talkeetna-Talkeena Alaskan Lodge....ate at the Wildflower Cafe and walked around in the rain Denali-Denali Park Village....traveled by train, The Wilderness Express to Denali, enjoyed lunch on the train Denali-Denali Park Village....did the 60 mile tour into Denali National Park Fairbanks - Pike's Waterfront Lodge

The highlights of our trip was the awesome flight over the ice fields and glaciers around Juneau with near perfect weather conditions. Seeing the whale continue to slap it's tail over and over again.....with a final breach on a great excursion out of Seward. Our Celebrity ship captain being able to give us a great view of the Hubbard glacier on a picture perfect day. The final treat was all the wildlife we saw in Denali National Park on the bus tour. The trip home was a killer......Fairbanks to Chicago....then Chicago to Houston.....then a 2 1/2 hour drive home! We needed a vacation to recover from our Alaska vacation!