I dub the Summer of 2023 The Summer of Travel – it seems I am hardly home these days! A couple of weeks after we got home from Northern Italy and literally a day after I got home from attending NAPCP Gallery event in Atlanta, my family and I flew to Vancouver to hang out there for a few days and then to take a cruise to Alaska!

I’ve been to Vancouver once for work but given than I was working I hardly saw any of it so it was great to explore this place. The weather cooperated and we saw and did #allthethings – we checked out the aquarium and Stanley park with its cool totem poles, ate delish food at the Granville Island Public Market and got our fill of exotic treats at Richmond Night Market, explored Gastown and Canada place :).

And then we boarded a ship that would be our home for 10 days and set course for Alaska!

We walked all over Juneau, had delicious all you can eat snow crab (I learnt my limit was 2 lbs!), and admired beautiful scenery:

took a helicopter to a top of a glacier and went sledding with a pack of alaskan huskies in Skagway:

went Kayaking in the Pacific in Sitka:

saw lots of totem poles in Icy Straight Point:

were in awe of the scenery in Glacier Bay:

saw tons of bald eagles and lots of different crabs at the Deadliest Catch Trip in Ketchikan:

The best part of this trip was that we were able to do it with my parents and my sister’s family! I think I enjoyed family time as much as I did the scenery and the food:). And here we are in all our Alaskan glory!:)