Alaska: Anchorage

Sunday, August 19, 2012

We woke up for breakfast with the other couples staying at the City Garden B&B in Anchorage on the southwest edge of Delaney Park, near downtown. The lodging is in Jerry’s house, but his neighbor Vic, a former judge all over the state of Alaska comes over to prepare breakfast for us. We had a great discussion with Vic and couples from the Midwest and Ontario Canada ranging from Scandinavian furniture design to politics. I would totally recommend to anyone to stay here. The only part I regret is not staying there longer.

After packed up and checked out of B&B and made our way to the Farmers Market.

Even though we weren’t that hungry to decided to go eat at F Street Station before heading to the airport. Apparently their eggs benedict are only made Sunday mornings and are to die for.

We still had some time to kill so we drove through Kincaid Park, hoping for one last wildlife sighting, the one animal we hadn’t seen but really really wanted to. I rolled down the window calling ‘moose….moose….’ but to no avail.

We catch a 3pm flight home to Seattle. Home on the north side of Seattle and Lake Washington. 

Green Lake.

 

Downtown Seattle. 

Mt Rainier.   

So happy to be home! Can't wait to sleep in my own bed!

To sum up our Alaskan vacation: 9 days, Juneau, Denali, Talkeetna, Anchorage, Seward, 4 nights in a tent in bear country, 5 glaciers, 2 black bears, 5 grizzlies including mama & her spring cubs, handful of caribou, hundreds of harbor seals on icebergs & countless beluga whales. All in all, we’d go back to visit in a heartbeat! Thank you Dave Howard, Alexis and Beth for your hospitality in Juneau and the best seafood meal of the trip: fresh caught Halibut, jumbo shrimp, and Alaskan king crab!

Even Chance had a great time on vacation at a country house dog cabin ‘All My Pet Friends’. She even came back with cute pictures of her time too! 

This is best quote after grabbing dinner on the way home from the airport:

Joe: “It’s so dark out here”

Jackie: “that’s because we’d be going to sleep when it became dark in Alaska”

Joe: “Oh yeah…”

How quickly we adjust and adapt to our surroundings.