L's favorite cousin, the one he hadn't seen for 50+ years, was in town for a week. Bruce was giving lectures at UAF, UAA, and UASE. We did the usual Anchorage area things---down to Portage visitor center and the small Wildlife Park that is in that area, a drive through the railroad tunnel to Whittier to take the 27 Glacier Cruise (cancelled due to high winds), and dinner at Seven Glaciers at Alyeska. The next day it was a day around town and the Garrison Keillor performance.
The following day they took the train to Seward and the Kenai Fjords tour; we drove down and met them for dinner at Ray's and stayed all night at WindSong lodge. Friday morning we toured the SeaLife Center, drove back to Anchorage and ended the visit with dinner at the Crow's Nest.
Our visiting cousins saw more raindrops than anything else. We had 11 straight days of rain. However, Bruce, who travels extensively, was able to add two new items to his lifetime-of-travel experiences---driving on a shared railroad bed through a railroad tunnel and seeing a glacier that comes down to the water and watching it calf. So, it wasn't all rain drops!
It was nice for L and Bruce to get reacquainted and I enjoyed getting to know Jane. She grew up in the center of Manhattan---oh, wow what a difference.
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