For the past few days, we've been spending some quality time with this cat, two other cats, a dog, and my grandmother. It's been nice to relax, not worry about putting up and taking down a tent, and free showers. But alas, we knew it would come sooner or later- back to the "wild"!

We decided to go to Seward, where it didn't stop raining the whole time we were there. Sewards a quaint touristy town, with too many hotels and way too many restaurants. However, it also has Alaska's only public aquarium.


This is the vertebrae of a whale!




Sea Lions apparently are known for loving an audience. This little fella could come under and see us looking in the windows and then go back out and see people looking down into the water.




We also hiked to (but unfortunately not up) Exit Glacier, right outside of Seward. Along the path...


The glacier itself:
If i were taking this picture in 1998, i'd be standing in the glacier. Along the trail to the glacier they have signs saying how far out the glacier was in different years. It was really cool, a little sad to think it's receded as much as it has.


We will be spending the next few days in anchorage, then up to denali, fairbanks, and then back to the lower 48.