Happy summer or soon to be summer for all you teachers out there! After 9 months of not taking care of ourselves, Jon and I are both looking for to taking care of ourselves. We finished school with the students on Tuesday and had a teacher day on Wednesday. Jon then attended a math workshop on Thursday.
Friday was our first official day off together. We decided to use our Kenai Fjords Tour tickets that we got through a fundraiser over a year ago. We had fanstastic weather for the tour and were fortunate to see about 6 humpback whales, 3 pods of orcas, a sea otter, a group of stellar sea lions, horned puffins, black bears, and mountain goats. Among one group of orcas we spotted a mom and baby. We also cruised up to a glacier that is calving (the ice falls into the water). The ice in the water sounded like Rice Krispies. Snap, crackle, pop.
Saturday was overcast, allowing us to get many errands done in town. Sunday has brought yet again, more sunshine. We got out right away for some geocaching and slacklining. While geocaching, we drove by a mama moose and her new born calf. This is our first moose calf sighting of the season. It was so small, it could have stood up underneath mom. They were walking down a gravel road together when we first spotted them before turning into the woods. We are now on the look out for baby moose in our own neighborhood, but haven't seen any yet.
sunrise: 4:54 AM
sunset: 11:13 PM
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