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Alaska

We don’t have many photos from our trip to Alaska because we forgot our camera in Anchorage on the very last day of the trip. Thankfully, we somehow have this photo of me catching my very first fish. Everyone else caught beautiful salmon that we were able to cook and eat on the shore. I caught a poisonous rock fish which had to be released; only for the exact same thing to happen to me the next time I went fishing, when we were in Turkey. Still, getting to throw a fish in the air and watch a Bald Eagle swoop in from seemingly nowhere, and catch it before it could hit the water was very cool. Not as cool as my Scooby-Doo life-jacket, but pretty close.
There are a handful of things I remember from this incredible trip, which include taking a helicopter tour over icebergs to go dog sledding. But these are the most salient ones:

Being in bikinis in the salt water pool on the cruise ship in Glacier Bay, thinking, it should really be colder (we went during summer.)

The self-serve soft-serve ice cream machine adjacent to the chlorine pool.

The cake show I crashed… and accidentally cut into a display cake at. Why on earth did my parents let me go alone to such a thing?

Mom got the golden charm of an outhouse.

It never got dark.

The two British little girls, presumably sisters, complaining to their dad that they wanted “two crumpets with their tea, daddy. Two crumpets.” Sage and I thought that was hilarious.

And the stomach flu I caught on the day we were leaving. I threw up once exiting the hotel room, once exiting the hotel elevator, once exiting the rental car, and once right at the entrance to the airport in seemingly perfectly timed events.