Alaska Adventures 2016

What a trip Alaska was--it seems a lifetime ago!  Steph, Sven, and Svea were so gracious in welcoming us into their home for almost TWO weeks and driving the adventure.  The boys looked forward to it for a couple months and still talk about it now.

Here are Svea, Lars, and Leif in Whittier post-26 Glacier Cruise...

Post-Mayor's Half Marathon...  Steph and I both survived!

There were a few family photos, so maybe we'll send out a holiday card in 2016 after all, and we have several photos of our boys being civil to each other...  Here's one from our loading up to head out to Whittier for our camping trip.  

A HUGE number of shots can be found here:  Alaska 2016 Photos

I'm not sure what was everyone's favorite activities...

• The boys loved the hiking, camping, boating, and exploring, especially in low tide, in Prince William Sound and soooooo much sunshine;
• There was hiking Flat Top Mountain and seeing the bear
• Hiking the mud flats out at Bird Point
• Mayor's Half Marathon (beautiful route, beautiful weather)
• 26 Glacier Cruise and becoming honorary captains!
• No moose  (What's up with that?!)  
• Jellyfish!!!
• Riding the tag-along for Lars--biking adventures begin!  
• Great family meals
• Legos, Legos, and more Legos...

The trio of youngsters were great together (Svea was very tolerant of little-boy behavior!). There was even a family effort in creating a home theater area in Sven and Steph's new house--there was a celebratory viewing of Star Wars to christen it.  Steph and I will claim responsibility for selecting the TV stand, but we best give credit to Mikael for the rest of the efforts (and Sven as the tag-along).

Next summer, if the Alaskan trio do a long road trip to the Lower 48, we will try to go meet them in Utah for some red-rock adventures.  This trip was our first official family BIG trip...  Many more to come.

I'll work on getting photos up from this summer's trip to the Blaha's cabin as well!