Alaskan Cruise

Having just returned from a 2 week cruise to Alaska and inland to Denali National Park, I wanted to dedicate some serious space to our adventures. I finally have my pictures sorted through and uploaded - with the list being over the course of 13 entries that I backdated to correspond to the dates of our trip. If you'd rather start at the beginning, click here and select the 'newer post' link to walk through in chronological order.

Day 13- 14 . Anchorage to...Phoenix?

Daniel and I hot-trotted around Anchorage for the day...and I mean hot-trotted, we walked to a movie theater 2.5 miles away to burn the afternoon until his cousin, Gaelen was off work. Everyone in Anchorage was very polite to pedestrians and they had very cool art galleries. We ate lunch at Orso - which was a global fusion view with local ingredients (my favorite view and ingredients) and a good selection of cocktails and microbrew beers. The kitchen was cool enough to let me take a quick picture, all the while one of the chefs stood next to me yelling comments to the chefs in the picture.



Later that night the big plan was to catch a flight from Anchorage at 1:45 AM for a ridiculously short layover in Phoenix and on to St. Louis. The incoming flight to Anchorage was delayed and, of course, we missed our layover flight. The 20 minute layover* in Phoenix became a 10 hour layover in Phoenix...awesome. But don't worry, we got a $5 lunch voucher and $10 dinner voucher. Not sure if you have ever bought food at an airport, but clearly the airline customer service employees have not - $5 won't even buy you a smoothie drink. The upswing is Daniel has an aunt, Andrea, in Phoenix and we were able to have a fun day hanging out with her - but I will fail to mention that in my complaint to US Airways.

*I blame the travel-booking genius of the travel agent. Don't get me started on that.