We Went to Alaska!

We're back home now but we went to Alaska from San Francisco with Karen, Kalissa, and Kailyn. It was a wonderful trip. We saw eagles, dolphins and whales, lots of whales. this is the picture they took when we boarded the ship.

Getting ready to go under the Golden Gate Bridge

Muster Drill

Karen tried to get their hair in the swim caps -- didn't work

Tendering into Sitka and lunch in town

In Glacier Bay

A Day in Haines
Spent the morning walking around town and saw the Hammer Museum
Wild Animal Park in the afternoon

Ketchikan

Banana Slug

Docked in Victoria, Canada

The Butterfly Gardens

Ask the girls about their creation

Back under the Golden Gate Bridge

Time to go home

Mothers' Day at College Heights

Bill & I met Kailyn in her 1st grade classroom for a party to celebrate Mothers. There was singing, poems, psalms, and food.  We went in Kathy's place since she couldn't leave work.

Three Angels Spring Sing

Katie's preschool had a Spring show that we went to and enjoyed

There were so many heads and cameras, it was hard to see Katie between them all!

A Celebration of Birthdays

We all got together and celebrated!

 3 Girls on a surfboard

 Presents

 Birthday cake -- cupcake size

 Visiting (That's Kailyn's Science Fair project in the background, Phases of the Moon)

Two mallards stopped by the back yard to say "Hi"

They come by every year around this time

Almost Easter

Mother, Kathy, Stuart, Kailyn, Katie, Karen, Bob, and Kalissa all came over for dinner and some Easter Egg time. Be sure to click on the pictures to see the details.

The Hunt

 

 Ouch! Katie has a big splinter in her foot

 The Flower Picker

 Dinner -- Hot Dogs in Cresent rolls

 Ukulele Players Kailyn and Kalissa

 Mother and Bob have a discussion 

 Concentration!

 In their PJ's and ready to go home

But wait -- looks like the Easter Bunny left some glow in the dark eggs.

(plastic eggs with glow sticks inside, courtesy of Kathy and the 99 cent store)

We took a 14 day Ukulele cruise on the Golden Princess

We spent 14 days on the Golden Princess with about 50 other fellow ukulele players. We took lessons from Uncle Mike (Michael Lynch) and his wife twice a day on the sea days. It was lots of fun. In the ports we also did some ukulele thigns with some of our fellow cruisers. Went to the Kamka and KoAloha factories in Honolulu and met the owner of Kamoa ukuleles in Kaua'i with Aldrine Guerro (super player and teacher)

Christmas Day

Now for taking down all the stuff we put up and eating leftovers for lunch. By dinner time we were tired so we went to the Orlinskys for a relaxed ham dinner.

Christmas Eve

Filling the time before dinner.

A Reading from St. Matthew

and the Angel said...........

Present Time

Katie's school had their Christmas program

There's snow on the house tops

The "after school" kids got a part too, that's Kailyn in the pink hat

There was a party in Katie's classroom when they finished.