Alaska adventures

And yes, we are back. Back from a "short" but wonderful vacations. Where were we?

Let me see: Toronto, New York (wait, those were not vacations), Phoenix (7 hours layover, does that consider as vacations?), Portland, OR (thanks for the Star Alliance on taking us on a detour flight) and finally Anchorage.

Yes, we were visiting Alaska. Funny, the first question we would get is: you didn't have enough cold and snow in Canada this winter? The second question: would be I need to see a picture of you with a polar bear. Well, no polar bears this time (November! look out for those ones), but pictures with moose, whales (not with the ones on the ship ones but the ones out side of the ship ones), eagles, brown and black bears, glaciers, mountains, snow, and snow again, are there.

We were taking a cruise. And you know what was the best part of all that? RADIO SILENCE! Yes, we did not have any signal on our mobile phones for 5 days. We got to enjoy the life we haven't been enjoying for the past, well, when did our careers have started, never mind, we haven't enjoy for the past many years.
I do admit that cruising is something we were not considering as a way of travel before but experiencing a free child care, getting to know other nerds like us, seeing the beauty of US, and, yes, that is the most beautiful site I have seen in my life.

I got to the extreme and gave Morten a 2 hour flight on a float-plane as a birthday present.

• (just a tip for those, who will take a cruise in a near or far future, don't ever buy excursions on the ship! You will end up paying 2-3 times more! For a float plane bear watch excursion we would be have been charged 300$ per person (that is per kid as well) on the ship. Just walking outside on the dock and going into the travel information centre saved us 700$ in total). 

Flying over the mountains, into the remote areas, where otherwise you will not be able to get to go, seeing fresh bear footprints in the snow and just enjoying the awesome creation of God was a real treat. But yes, we were quite happy to get to the main land after 2 hours of a bumpy flight.