Alaska Adventure~

Here are a few pictures from our Alaskan Cruise! Nothing too fancy, I only had that dumb disposable camera... but they are better than nothing!

In our dining room, very fancy, indeed. Since this trip was for my mom and dad's 40th anniversary, we were spoiled! Happy Anniversary balloons on our door, flowers in our room, and this tasty little cake! After the waiters brought it and realized there was no husband on this anniversary trip, I still had them sing their "Happy Anniversary" song to us! The one waiter was from the Philippines and the other from the Ukraine. They were great.

A part of our super-cool room. There was a sitting area, wet bar, 2 T.V.s and a huge bathroom with jetted tub! Plus, a large vanity to sit and do hair and make up. The balcony was huge, large enough for two lounge chairs and then a table with 4 chairs!

Our first day at sea and the first of two formal dinners. My, this disposable camera takes such GREAT pictures, eh?!

Ketchikan, our first port of call. The sign says... "Alaska's first city" and "Salmon Capital of the world". Below are pictures from our visit here:

We got to feed Reindeer!!! Highlight of my trip! :)

Man in the process of carving a Totem Pole. Very interesting! It will take him about 6 months to finish.

The Rain Forest we had a tour through. So beautiful. Lots of evidence of bear, but we didn't actually see any bear. If you look closely, you can see the line for the zip line. Lots of people zipped over the rain forest!

Glacier. It has a name, but I can't remember it. We went down this one area, it was supposed to be a place called Tracy Arm, but there was too much ice, so we went down a different route to see this amazing glacier. We saw lots of icebergs along the way and I even witnessed a hunk of glacier falling into the water! It made a huge "BOOM" sound.

Chilly Juneau.

Juneau, Alaska. There is a tiny waterfall flowing from the mountain. Beautiful city.

Mendenhall Glacier. Juneau.

Skagway, Alaska. Our third port of call. Lots of cool history here. Created during the gold rush, men lived here as they prepared to go to the Yukon to look for gold. Canada was around 20 miles from here.

Skagway. Pop. 800 people.

Me and Mom at an overlook in Skagway.

Victoria, British Columbia, our last stop.

Pure Beauty!

Then we came home! :)

Amazing trip, thanks mom!

Lawson Family Update~

~Just a quick note, I turned in my cool disposable camera today and will be getting a CD made along with the photos, so later I will be able to post a few pictures of beautiful Alaska!~

Since I was far, far away in Alaska for the girls' dance recital, Chloe took over on hair and

make up duty. She did a fabulous job. She was very pleased on Lindsay's fancy do.

Chloe did a good job on Lindsay's hair-do!

Fancy hair.

Cutie-Pie!

Three little Lawsons ready to go out and boogie!

Lindsay, in the middle. Look at that perfect form! Notice how nicely she points her toe!

Natalie... on the right!

Haley and her dance team... where is Haley? I think she is in the front somewhere!

Lindsay graduates from preschool!

she had 2 super fun years with "Smart Stuff Preschool"

and will miss her teacher dearly.

Kindergarten will begin in mid-August.

Lindsay wearing the same preschool graduation dress that I made for Natalie 4 years ago.

(It's good having all girls!)

It's onto Kindergarten!!! Woo Hoo!!

Lindsay, top, middle. Trying to keep that graduation cap on her head!

Linds and her beloved teacher, Miss Tonya.

I Have Returned!

None of these links work!!! Oh well........................................

Well, my mom and I had a great time on our cruise!!! The Star Princess was a beautiful ship! It was smooth sailing for most of our journey, we did have one day of rockin' and a rollin' and I wasn't feeling too hot, but other than that, we had a fun time on this amazing ship! I only brought along a disposable camera due to the fact that our digital is filled with 700 pictures, and I didn't feel like dealing with that. So all that I can show you for now are some links of 3 of our 4 excursions.
Ketchikan, Alaska. Here we walked a few miles through a bear infested rain forest! Awesome!! We never saw any bears here, but saw lots of bear poop and evidence of bear all over. So Cool!

Juneau, Alaska. We spent a lot of time at this amazing glacier: Mendenhall Glacier. We did a few other things here, too. This city is gorgeous! If we had to pick up and move our family for some crazy reason to Alaska, Juneau would be it.

Skagway, Alaska. Within minutes of us arriving here we met up with some LDS missionaries! We chatted with them for a while, one was from Utah (surprise, surprise!) and the other was from Florida. Then my mom and I shopped our little hearts out in the great shops all over Skagway, then headed on our tour. What cool little town with a huge history!

Butchart Gardens, Victoria, B.C Gorgeous! We spent a few hours walking through this amazing garden, then had a cool tour of this beautiful city on our chartered bus. It was fun hanging out in Canada for the day!

I'll try to post my vacation pictures another time... that is if I ever bother to get the disposable camera developed!

My family survived without me.... they missed me a bunch, though! They loved all the fun treasures I brought home for them. I was sad to miss my girls' dance recital (thanks, Chloe for doing such a great job on hair and makeup!) and to be there for Nat when she came home in tears on the last day of school 'cause she loves her teacher so much and didn't want the school year to end. Gene did a great job keeping the house in one piece, and Chloe helped so much with all the babysitting!
I have girls' camp in 2 weeks, then after that, I'm never leaving my family again!!