Diane and Ray.
A Stellar Jay -- Diane feeds them peanuts so they come pretty close and are really loud when they haven't been fed.
The Vancouver skyline.
Stanley Park
The first evening.
The first formal night, at dinner.
The inside passage.
Juneau, the capital of Alaska.
How to make shadow puppets, from a poster in the museum in Juneau.
My mom with a totem in Juneau.
The ship.
The ship again. 
This contraption removes the snow on train tracks so the train can travel from Skagway, Alaska into the Yukon.
The giant town of Skagway (pop'n: 800, number of passengers on one cruise ship ~2000, number of cruise ships in port at the same time 3-5). Talk about a tourist town! It did have great shops.
The Hubbard Glacier. This is a very large glacier and it is just north of Skagway. We were able to get very close to it, as the next few pictures will show. In the glacier the blue colour comes from the density of the ice. The more dense and well formed the ice the deeper the blue. Therefore the whiter pieces have more air.
Our dinner companions, from back to front, left to right: My mom, myself, Sam, Cheryl and Robin (Sam's mom & Cheryl's cousin)
Our waiters Michael and Ovidio.
The beautiful shoreline of the inside passage.
Creek Street in Ketchikan, Alaska. This is the old red light district.
Dolly was the most famous madam of the time. Amazingly she is still with us today and her house has been made into a museum of sorts.
A very interesting totem pole.
The coolest fountain I have ever seen. All the taps were turned on a different amount from drips to slow trickles -- very interesting.
The most unique maple I have ever seen the leaves were green on top and purple on the bottom.
More totems.
I really liked this newer one.
The funicular to get to the top of town.
Ketchikan, Alaska
My mom and I.The next few photos are of the midnight buffet. The theory was that this buffet was to showcase the talents of all the chefs, which it did. The problem was that I couldn't even think about eating anything while looking at all of this beautiful food, beacuse I had only finished a huge dinner 1.5 hours earlier. One thing a cruise does not lack is food!
It was beautiful, but I didn't stay to try anything.
My mom looking for whales. We saw a few dorsal fins that were probably orcas, but not much else.
This wonderful view comes from the area around Vancouver Island.
My mom giving me the 'why are you taking a picture now?' look while we were enjoying some sushi as a between lunch and dinner snack.
Our last night had a fantastic sunset. It was so nice I got up from the dinner table to take some more photos of it.
So that was the cruise. We had a blast.Back in Vancouver we spent a couple of nights with friends and went to visit my great aunt Rose.
Me, Aunt Rose and my mom.
Me, Ron, Dianna and my mom.That's it for now. I will soon start a China page and you can check out there for pics.
