Juneau, Alaska

When we awoke from our champagne-induced slumber, we were in Juneau!  I didn't think there was anything more beautiful than watching drunk retirees attempt to dance (as we did the night before), but alas, I was wrong!  This is what we saw upon exiting our room:

After disembarking, we immediately boarded a bus to check out the Mendenhall Glacier.  Pictures don't quite do its beauty justice. 

After walking around a bit, we headed to our whale-watching cruise.  Unfortunately, whales are quite unpredictable and don't respond to bribery so you can get a good shot of them (imagine that).  So sadly, no pictures.  But, we did see several blue whales.  I couldn't get over how graceful they were.  They're absolutely enormous but move with such peace.

I did take one of some sea lions though (who knew that they do in fact respond to bribes and twenty bucks is all it takes for them to pose?):

And one of my mom and me on the boat (guess which one of us responds to $20 bribes):

It was quite an eventful day, and rather than joining the aforementioned drunk retirees on the dance floor in the evening, we hit the buffet (of course) and went straight to bed.  Do we know how to party or what?