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Our last day in Alaska we wanted to do the ultimate tour to see Alaska, a flight tour on the little plane you see below. TJ was a nervous wreck, he is scared of heights, but he was such a trooper! He didn't talk much throughout the tour, we all had our own headset and mic, it was pretty cool. It was an incredible way to see all the mother nature that makes up Alaska!

Our plane has arrived for our flight tour! It was just us in the plane with our own pilot/tour guide!

4th of July after Daddy's game. They had a double header and then a firework show, which was pretty good. The fireworks didn't begin til midnight, but they weren't bad for not being completely dark in Alaska, it was a pretty good show! After the game, TJ came up to sit with us and watch the show as Rhowan was passed out sleeping, the booming didn't even phase her! However, she was wide awake after we got into the car, hence her sleeping is all out of whack right now! Oh well, for a good cause! :)

At one of daddy's games...she is just teething on this, she never actually got a bite of it, stop judging me! LOL!

Daddy coaching 3rd base. It was so awesome watching him be in charge. His confidence, his passion and just seeing in him action up close and personal was priceless. It makes all the ups and downs of being a coach's wife well worth it! :) I am so proud of him!

More Alaska Pics...

First train ride...on our way to Whittier...there was such beautiful scenery on the way, this totally reminded me of Europe and how much I want to go back. I wish TJ was able to join us on this day, but he had a game that evening and wasn't too interested in the Glaciers at the time! :)

This was on our glacier boat tour, probably one of the highlights of this trip...amazing to see in person, never really understood all the hype of a glacier or what it actually was...it is just a ton of compacted, frozen, ice...pretty amazing to see. We even got to see pieces of it falling off, I forget the technical term for that, but it was really neat. This was a long day, with the train ride to Whittier, but it was amazing. We even saw whales on this cruise, pretty awesome!

Grandma, Rhowan and mommy

She was such a good girl on the boat cruise.

Rhowan and Grandma (look at all the brochures grandma is holding...we went to the visitor center to plan out our trip and all that we wanted to do!)

More Adventures...

The petting zoo with Grandma...Rhowan wasn't too into touching the animals!

The gift shop at the Acquarium in Seward...

At the animal conservation center...yes, that is a live, brown bear walking toward Rhowan, behind the fence!

Alaska Adventures

We stopped at the visitor center on our drive to Seward...this was our day long trip when we went to the animal conservation center, stopped at Portage where there is a glacier and did some sight seeing.
What a good lil traveler she is...

Trying to get the pluggy out of her mouth, but hey, you can't always ask for perfect family pics with lil ones, right?! This was the first glacier we saw while in Alaska, behind us, between the two mountains. Yes, white snow on the mountains still, in June!

A stop along the highway on our day long drive...

A day in downtown Anchorage

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Rhowan and Ivy today before going to daddy's baseball game

Moose at the Conservation Center

Seward Highway, driving along the scenic route...

Alaska Pictures

Brown bears at the Wild Life Conservation Center (basically a drive through/walk through zoo)

and bison...lots of them

Fish at the Seward, AK Acquarium...

On our drive to Seward, I guess I missed the shot of the glacier...oh well, we'll post real glacier pics later!

On our drive home at almost midnight...beautiful views

Alaska Adventures

After an afternoon at the Anchorage, AK zoo...This is her new bff, Ivy...she loves her so much and gives her kisses non stop! :)

We saw black bears, brown bears and...

real polar bears! It was amazing! Polar bears won't bother humans, black bears may, but be aggressive and fight back, brown bears, you need to play dead, they will kill you. There are all three types in the wild here in Alaska that they tell you to watch for when hiking, etc.

The tigers were pacing back and forth...they were beautiful...

and here is Rhowan watching them pace. She loved the tigers and the wolves, (I think she thought they were a bunch of Jada's in a pack!)



As you all can see we took a trip to the zoo this week. We have actually done a lot, so stay tuned. The zoo here is very small, but actually a perfect afternoon and day adventure. It wasn't too overwhelming or big, it was just enough to keep you busy and not totally ware you out. Rhowan has been such a good girl, she is a traveler, just like her mommy. She didn't last long in the stroller, so baby bjourn it was, "Little Miss Nose Bud" doesn't like to miss a thing! We took so many pictures of all the animals, but most are on our camera, so I will post those as we get home from our trip. After our trip to the zoo, we dropped daddy off to the field for his games for the evening and spent the rest of the day out and about until game time that evening. Oh and Rhowan's new bff (best friend forever), Ivy, she gives her kisses, and hugs, again, a Jada look alike. lol.

We have had a busy week, we drove into Girdwood, a small ski resort town. Then the next day drove about 2 hours out to a small, small town Seward. We stopped at a Wild Animal Conservation Center on our way, I will post those pics as well, it was weird, kind of like a drive thru zoo, then we saw the Portage Glacier, took a few pics, walked through the visitor center and then continued on our drive to Seward. We did a quick visit to the aquarium because it was closing soon, then walked around the small town, walked to the boat docks where there were some restaurants and had some of the most amazing seafood ever. Yes, I have been venturing out with seafood. I have come to love, love halibut, it is so fresh here and yummy! :) Not a fan of the Alaskan King Crab, I know, I know, just the texture, I can't do it. Nor am I real big on the Salmon, its kind of too fishy for me, the smell or the taste of fish just doesn't do it for me. Halibut taste like chicken so I like the halibut fish and chips and halibut by itself as well.

TJ was over our tourism after the scenic drive to Seward, so Grandma (Teri), Rhowan and myself took a scenic train ride along the coast to Whittier, a small, small, super small town (no single dwelling home, everyone lives in one complex and you have to take a tunnel to get in and out of the town that is shared with the train that goes there), so we took the train ride and did a boat, glacier tour. That was absolutely beautiful and AMAZING. Soooo gorgeous and neat to see up close and personal. Honestly, I never really knew the true definition of a glacier. But we learned it! I will post all the other pics from our adventures this week in a bit.
We have been keeping busy, but took it easy these past two days. Tomorrow we have a double header at the Anchorage Bucs field with a firework show following, then just Monday and Tuesday left to fit in whatever we have not done yet! We hope you all have a safe and fabulous 4th of July and will talk to you all soon!

xoxoxo,

The Bruce's