Day - 15 Juno!

Today we took what probably will be our favorite excursion.  We took a seaplane for about a 45 minute flight and flew up to the Juno Ice Fields, and it was incredible!  We have been seeing glaciers for several days now, but the ice fields were crazy.  It is so huge that even from the air you just don’t see it all.  I believe that they mentioned that it was a thousand square miles in size and it looks it!  Our flight was in a turbine Otter seaplane and it was very well run.  The plane was clean and the staff was super friendly.  We flew over a number of glaciers including Mendenhall.  

Juno was much larger that Skagway, although it is the state capital, so it should not be a big surprise.  We did a little shopping around town and Jack and I took the Mount Roberts tram up to the top of the peak to check out the view.  The view is great, but probably not worth the price they charge for tickets ($35+ per adult).  Still, it was fun and we got a great birds eye view of the ship.  

Dinner tonight was at the Parrot Cay again and our breakfast was the normal buffet up on the fan tail.  There are other options for breakfast, but we like having a large buffet, plus they have the smoked salmon that Kate likes.  Lunch was in town today at a local Mexican restaurant and it was fine, but a little pricey.  As almost everything has to be shipped in, we understand the additional expense.  

Home sweet home!

After dinner we went to see the Toy Story Musical broadway style show.  It was pretty decent, but not as good as the Golden Micky’s we attended the second night.  There was also a Pixar dance party just prior to the show in the main lobby area that had a lot of the Pixar characters present.  It was a lot of fun seeing them all.  I was a little surprised at all the characters that are on-board the ship.  It seems like they are always running about or making an appearance to sign autographs and have their picture taken with everyone.  There is a schedule so you can find your favorite character where ever they are appearing.  The appearances almost always have a line of some length with everyone wanting to meet them.