Adentures in Alaska

Just a quick post to bring you up to date:

July 4: Eddie acting weird, threw up a little overnight and then a little more in the morning. Checked out of bed and breakfast and headed to the local museum that was supposed to be fabulous. Eddie yakked. Completely covered himself, got his carseat and managed to get mom and dad during the clean up. Think g'ma and g'pa Ohio in the backseat managed to avoid coverage.

G'ma Ohio discovered the museum we'd saved for this day was closed on July 4 even though we'd been assured everything in town was open. Hence no paper towels with which to clean Eddie.

Skip ahead to afternoon: Ferry was supposed to leave Sitka en route to Wrangell. Called on July 3 to confirm. Showed up at the terminal 3 hours early to find the ferry had been CANCELLED.

Lost cell phone in back of car behind taillight--in parking lot of ferry terminal. G'pa Ohio had to crawl under car and reach up underneath to retreive. It wasn't lost where you change the light.

July 5: Chartered 8 passenger plane to Wrangell. Not the way we had planned to see inside passage. G'pa Ohio thought he'd died and gone to heaven. G'ma Ohio was afraid she would die. Eddie slept from about taxi to after we got to the hotel in Wrangell. Nice homemade dinner at hotel in Wrangell.

July 6: wee hours. Mom didn't feel so good--puked in the middle of the night. Early morning, while mom laid in bed, green, Ed puked up his freshly drunk milk--somehow it managed to curdle quickly. Got dad all over his pants and the floor of the hotel. Thought dad was going to puke too from all the activity. Took a ferry ride that morning for an hour (unlike Sitka, hotel we were staying didn't have room for us for another night) and then a 45 minute ride on a dirt, then curvy paved road. Slept all day in hotel while everyone checked out the town.

July 7: Mom much better. Rode out by boat to LeConte Glacier. Took some hikes in the afternoon. Watched a kid and his dad catch 3 or 4 HUGE king salmon in about 20-30 mintues. One was 34 or 36 pounds. Got a biology lesson too as he gutted them.

Have seen eagles like we see squirrels back home.

Hope to update with pictures soon. Have taken about 500 in spite of illness. That's just with one camera--not including g'ma and g'pa Ohio.