Well Sarah, Cody, Luke and Charlotte have gone back to Nebraska. We had a wonderful visit and enjoyed being with the kids for awhile. I had four days off and was able to spend the whole time with them. Now I have gone back to work and back to the old grind. I am going to have to think of something to blog about. If you can't talk about your grand kids, what better thing to talk about than your old vacations and show pictures. Yea!!!
I mentioned in one of my first blogs that I had seen and done things in the last couple of years that I thought I would only see in National Geographic. Well I have now seen some of those wonderful places and have taken my own pictures. God really knew how to create magnificent sights.
In 2006 our kids chipped in and gave us a trip to Alaska. We went the last week in May. It must have been the most perfect week of the year. The weather was just right not to hot or cold. Most of the days were clear and sunny. The days were still long and you could wake up at 3 :00 a.m in the morning out look out the porthole and see nothing put blue sea and sky. It was hard to tell where one ended and the other began. We were lucky enough to have a large port window that was probably five or six feet in diameter. It was nice just to go back to our room and lay on the bed and watch the waves rolling past. ( Talk about stress relief!)
We flew into Anchorage then took a train down to Seward, where we boarded the Summit. We cruised for seven days and stopped at several ports. We didn't take many side trips, we just enjoyed getting off the ship and wandering around the small towns. We met a lot of really nice people on board. We enjoyed the fancy dinners, the live shows and the casino. I even came in second in a table tennis tournament. Of course there were only three of us competing and I wasn't that good. It was just that the third person was really terrible.
I wish I was like Sondra and could remember the names of all the towns, and the of all the people we met. I couldn't remember stuff like that when her age. The important thing is that we went, we saw and we enjoyed every minute of it. One of the advantages of having a lots of kids, they sometimes surprise with very special gifts.
I will have to post the pictures tomorrow. Darn dial up. Kept getting shut down.
