20050514..May 14, 2005...Official Check in Disney's 1st 14 Day thru Panama Canal

[krdisneybound]

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a pic from the photo safari

 

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this pic is from the ship - I love the pier and it's long legs

 

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favorite waterfall from safari

 

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This is the famous Mendenhall glacier. We saw it from this vantage point after our walk through the rainforest. It's just outside Juneau. The blues in that glacier are so intense, I can't believe the camera didn't catch it, but it's almost cobalt in color! It left me speechless, and you know that takes a lot, lol!

 

[tap & dap]

cool pictures can't wait till we go next year ....


thanks for posting those

 

[Scott H]

Renae, perfect just some of the stuff I was wondering. HAL is available to us via a DVC exchange. I have this feeling the DCL has spoiled us in many ways. Thanks Much for the info.

H

AL's target audience is 60-80. Maybe they aren't used to people remembering what they ordered.....

It would be pretty scarry id a bunch of us Lanyard People showed up....

cool pictures can't wait till we go next year ....

Thanks T&D for the reminder, makes me feel better about not leaving Wyoming too early, gotta do this trip, and WY is closer to AK than FL. Then again you get to work for the Mouse and be warm in the winter

 

[Hygiene99]

Great photo's

We so want to do that trip..

Kay thanks for posting !

Peter

 

[krdisneybound]

We flew to the Mendenhall Glacier on a helicopter and got out and walked it. You feel like you are on top of the world looking down

Really amazing - hard to imagine it w/o seeing it - like Renae said - the blues are very intense

The crevaces are very large also. There is a story about a young child who fell into one and fifty years later they found him and he was like frozen solid for all those years and was not decomposed at
all.

the helicopter ride was $600 and at the time I thought it was too much, but we did it anyways and so glad we did; otherwise, we would have missed some awesome and something I will always have memories of

 

[tap & dap]

Great photo's

We so want to do that trip..

Kay thanks for posting !

Peter

we are going in mid march 2007 tom wants to do the train so it shall be fun ...... we are doing land and water

kay thanks for posting the pict.....

diana

 

[auntrenae]

Kay,

You're so funny... that 'share with others...' is the automatic response from Snapfish. I must have forgotten to delete it...sorry!

Renae

 

[auntrenae]

Kay,

Thanks for posting the pix, they look great that way!

Diane,

I brought back a bunch of brochures for you, so give me a call when you have time to look at them. I should be unpacked in a few days...

For anyone who wants to know, the flight from here was 2 hours to Houston, an hour layover, then 8 hours to Anchorage.... not my favorite part of the trip, but still worth it. Like I said before, I'd do a back to back from Vancouver to Anchorage and back next time. There just wasn't enough time in port to do everything we wanted to do.

The photo safari I did in Juneau was $169 and worth double that! Meeting our guide Michael O'Halloran (sp?) and doing the close-up photos of the gorgeous scenery was wonderful! I'll try to get the rest of my pix uploaded today so you can see the 'king of the bouy' game with the eagle...LOL, ROFL!!!!!FABL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (fabl is my new one, it means fall off boat laughing)

Renae

 

[auntrenae]

Kay,

Do you have pix you can share from your plane trip to the glacier? We would have loved to do that, but it was just too expensive this time.

Peter,

I'm glad you liked them!

Scott,

I think the main difference, after reading what you said about DCL spoiling you, is that there just isn't any magic. We all know what the magic of DCL is like, and on the HAL ship, the employees just acted like it was a job, and if they were off, they didn't want to know you were there. One night I saw waiters put food down fast and run for the nearest window when we were going through a tight canyon. The whole thing comes down to the fact that DCL CM's care and have magic, and nobody else does... I don't know if a different cruise line would be better or worse, but this is supposed to be one of the premium lines...

Renae

 

[krdisneybound]

Kay,
Do you have pix you can share from your plane trip to the glacier? We would have loved to do that, but it was just too expensive this time.
Renae

Here are a few pics. My pics were not with a digital camera, so I took pics of the ones in my book.

As you can see, the glaciers are totally massive and how big the crevaces (?) sp. are.


this one goes down 100's of feet

 

[krdisneybound]

with these two you can see a river flowing next to the glacier - and see how thick it is - geez, wish these were digital, I would post them and you could see all of them - there are approx. 45 rolls of film I had developed

 

[bonzie1]

Renae + Kay...

AWESOME PICTURES!!!

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

Oh would you guys stop posting pictures (just kidding...they are great) BUT you are making me want to go to Alaska NOW....instead of in a few years....

Do you think if we start bombarding DCL with Alaska requests now...they may consider it for 2008??????

Could you imagine if the lanyard people did invade HAL...they wouldn't know what hit them!!!!!

After reading some of Renae's review I think we probably would have got in trouble for some of the things we did on our cruise......Like we probably would have been "banished" to our rooms for "borrowing" deck chairs.....I still think about that night...and think what I would have given to see the guys/gals in the camera room when they saw us in the elevator panicking when the "white suit" was there when the door opened.....and then to see us running down the halls carrying the chairs.....I must say it was pretty fun...but I also think that it was the start of my "bad" streak....thanks Linda!!!!!


P.S. Kay....just think, this time next week you will be having a MAGICal voyage!!!!!!

 

[airtime247]

I wonder how HAL would have reacted if a bunch of people camped out in a hallway one night or showed up to one of the restaurant in their PJ's!

Great pictures Renae & Kay! I'm glad you had nice weather Renae. It rained a lot and was overcast every day of our cruise. We still had an amazing time though. I'm going to have to do the one way cruise next time to see the extra ports.

-steve

 

[auntrenae]

For anyone who wants to see my pix while you're in town, I can hook up my camera to the TV so they're easy to see. I didn't know about this feature until a couple of months ago, but it's sure handy...

Renae

 

[auntrenae]

Steve,

You really should do the one way, as the northern ports of Haines and Juneau are wonderful! I'd love to go even farther north sometime if the weather would be as good as we had it.

Renae

 

[krdisneybound]

HERE is another pic from Renae:


This is in Glacier bay, one of the glaciers that we got to see calve. It's hard to get a picture of them in motion, but it's sure fun to watch!