Today we got off a real big boat and got on a much smaller boat. 🙂

We were one of the very last people off the cruise ship. After checking in for our planned 6-hour tour of the Kenai fjords, we wandered the little town and ran into several couples we knew from the ship who were doing the same thing. There are only three ways to get to Anchorage from Seward – bus (no thanks), expensive rental car (only one company on the island so they charge insane prices) or train. We chose the train, which most people choose, but it doesn’t leave Seward til 6 p.m. To kill the time, we went on the day cruise. And it was well worth it.

We saw a pod of Orcas (killer whales!), a couple of elusive fin whales, humpbacks galore, seals, birds of all kinds, and a sea otter just relaxin’ on his back watching us cruise around him. We also saw another glacier. This one wasn’t as big as Hubbard, but was still impressive. We got within a 1/4 mile of it, and it calved like a champ.

Later, on the train, we had a lovely meal. Misty would be happy to know Andy was excited to finally get pot roast again after so many years have gone by since Carol woo’ed him with hers. We arrived in Anchorage exhausted to find our hotel was NOT directly across the street as expected, which would have been its sole redeeming quality. As it was, we had to ride a van for 10 minutes to get to what turned out to be kind of a dump. Good thing we were exhausted.