Weekend Wrap Up

We hope you had a great weekend! We sure did especially since Mommy came home on Friday. We loved our time with Daddy but he isn't quite the pushover for treats that Mommy is. He's also a lot harder to wake up in the morning for breakfast!

Mommy did have fun on her cruise with our Grandma from Las Vegas. They went from Seattle to Astoria to two days in San Francisco...

After that they went back up north to Victoria, Canada where they saw this guy...

And this guy on their cabin balcony...

It would've been so easy for her to put that birdie in her carry on but of course she didn't. Whatever. Anyway, we're glad our whole family is together again.

What did you do this weekend?

Hope you have a great Monday!

Angel and Isabella

BBArtisans Challenge: 2016 Hopes and Plans

It's the last Friday of January so we're just squeaking in our post for this month's Blogging Business Artisans challenge which happens to be the one our mommy came up with. She challenged the BBA team to tell us their hopes, goals, travels or plans for 2016. Mommy's hope is to go to Alaska and finally see a moose...

When she and Daddy went on an Alaskan cruise in 2014 they saw lots of eagles and whales but not one moose. Even on a three day land tour from Seward to Fairbanks including an 8 hour bus tour into Denali National Park they saw caribou, Dall sheep and even a snow shoe hare but not one moose. All the other buses in their group saw a moose and even a bear but not their bus! In hopes of seeing a moose they're spending 10 days in the Kenai Peninsula area of Alaska this June...

You know what that means for us? Our Grandpa from Kansas will be here spoiling us giving us awesome scritches! I'm thinking we got the better end of that deal! Anyway, see this other book that I'm pointing at here...

It's a cruise book. Mommy's going on a cruise with our Grandma from Vegas this year too. They're both looking forward to that and of course we're looking forward to a a week with Daddy spoiling us catering to our every whim! It seems that we're all going to have a pawesome year! 

Do you have anything exciting happening this year?

Hope you have a fabulous Friday and wonderful weekend!

Isabella and Angel

A Vacation to Remember

It's the last day of July (how'd that happen so fast?) and we're participating in this month's BBArtisans team challenge in the nick of time! The challenge, from Linda at Pruitt Supply, is to create something with a vacation theme or write about a favorite vacation. Well, we don't go on vacations but I can create something to help Mommy remember one of her favorite vacations so that's what I did! 

Last summer Mommy and Daddy went on a 10 day Alaskan cruise/tour which is something Mommy never thought she'd do since she gets motion sickness very easily. Anyway, thanks to meclizine, she was able to go and it ended up being one of the most memorable trips she and Daddy have ever been on with views and eagles everywhere...

One of the many things they did was pan for gold in Fairbanks and their huge gold find was put in a pendant. A really boring pendant.  Ho hum...

So I had an idea to help her bling up her pendant so she'd actually wear it instead of keeping it in a drawer. I picked out a blue bead to symbolize the blue skies, ocean and glaciers they saw and it turned out like this...

It's certainly not boring anymore! Now she can wear it and remember the fun time they had on their cruise. I know, I'm so smart. What would she do without me?

Thanks for the challenge Linda! The pendant would still be in a drawer if it hadn't been for your challenge and my fabulous idea! 

Do your beans have a favorite vacation?

Happy last day of July! Enjoy your weekend!

Angel

Finally!

It's finally Friday but also Mommy finally has some glacier photos she took on their Alaskan cruise last month!  She had requests on Facebook to show these photos but she's been "too busy" to help us post them.  Blah, blah, blah.  Whatever.  Anyway, these are in order of when they saw them starting with a shore excursion up to the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau...

The day they were there it was cold, windy and rainy so it was hard to get good photos of it since Mommy's fingers were frozen!  The next glacier they saw was from their stateroom balcony as they were sailing by.  Can you see the house on the edge of the water?

On the last full day of the cruise they sailed up to the Hubbard Glacier and both Mommy and Daddy were awestruck as they saw this from their balcony...

The ship did two full slow circles so everyone could see the absolutely beautiful scenery (click on the photo to biggify)...

The ice on top of the water is about 350 feet high and there's another 250 feet of ice below the water too.  The glacier was calving and each time it sounded like thunder.  The ice falling off is approximately 600 years old and Mommy took a squizillion photos of each calving event but we'll just show one...

While they were there, the ship's captain sent some of the crew out to bring in an iceberg that they later carved into an ice sculpture.  As you can tell, the icebergs near the ship were slighty too big for them to bring in...

Here's the one they got.  Notice how murky the water is from the glacial silt?

After an hour it was time to set sail again...

These are just a small fraction of the photos Mommy took of the glaciers and their entire time in Alaska but we'll spare you any more!  If there are any questions or requests to see something else, let us know and we'll do our best to accommodate them!  Believe it or not, she has even more woofie photos!  Ugh!

Hope you have cool glacier thoughts if it's hot in your neck of the woods!

Living the Wildlife!

Since we showed photos of big bald birdies yesterday, today we thought we'd show other kinds of wildlife that Mommy and Daddy saw up in Alaska.  They spent most of their vacation on a cruise ship and did see whales, porpoises and lots of sea birds but none sat still long enough for a good photo.  She did get a photo of these sea lions.  Can you spot two?

And of course there were bald eagles everywhere...

After the cruise ended in Seward, AK, they took a three day land tour which included a Tundra Wilderness Tour in Denali National Park & Preserve that promised lots of wildlife to be seen like bears and moose.  Yeah, well, there in there somewhere...

The first critter they spotted was an Artic ground squirrel.  Kinda looks like the non-artic chipmunks huh?

The snowshoe hare is pretty cute and sure has big floofy feets!  Of course in the winter time he'd be all white...

They even saw Willow Ptarmigan which are Alaska's state bird... 

Finally as they got farther into the park they saw big critters like Dall sheep...

Usually they look like little white dots on the mountainside...

They did see lots and lots of caribou like this youngin'...

Despite being on the tour for 8 hours, they didn't see one bear or moose.  Daddy says they'll just have to go back sometime but we might have something to say about that!

What kind of wildlife do you have in your neck of the woods?

Enjoy your day!

PeeS:  All the park photos were taken from a bus since the only way to visit deep inside Denali National Park is via their buses.  It kinda made it hard to see the wildlife let alone get good photos of them but she did the best she could.  They were allowed to get off in designated areas but of course the only wildlife around those areas were tourists from other buses!

Big Bald Birdies!

Sure there are huskies in Alaska but there are a lot of bald eagles too.  Mommy and Daddy said they could see them flying through the trees from their stateroom balcony but they saw them up close at Icy Strait Point such as this guy who met the cruise ship's tender boats as they came to the pier...

He was keeping an eye on everything from that vantage point.  Can you see him?

They went on a hike through the forest and saw this eagle up high in the tree...

Also this adult and juvenile eagle.  The youngin' blended in real well...

This juvenile was at the harbor in the nearby town of Hoonah, AK.  He may not have his white feathers in yet but he sure has that menacing stare down pat...

Mommy and Daddy walked back to Icy Strait Point from Hoonah and all along the 1.5 mile route the eagles were soaring above them...

They are certainly majestic aren't they?

Of course, Mommy not only spotted the eagles in the area but she also saw this guy...

And this one too...

*sigh* She's hopeless.

Hope you enjoyed seeing the beautiful big bald birdies from Alaska!