Just My Rambling

Last summer we went on a cruise to Alaska. Besides stopping at Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka, the cruise also included a cruise around the Hubbard Glacier. The Glacier was just so awesome. While we were enjoying the beautiful scenery, we saw another cruise ship which had just finished cruising around the Glacier. The cruise ship looked so small in front of the huge glacier.

A closer look of the cruise ship as it got closer to the ship that we were on. Check out all the ice floating on the water.  It was actually a little nerve-wracking sailing through the ice because we keep hearing all kinds of banging sounds as the ice hits the ship!! : )

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When I was still in college in the Midwest, my friends and I used to love to go to Branson for weekend trips. We loved going to Silver Dollar City, a unique theme park filled with arts and crafts of the early 1900s. After a day of fun, we would either go for the dinner cruise aboard the Showboat Branson Belle or catch one of the live shows in town. It has been many years since I last visited Branson. I heard that it has changed a lot. I would love to revisit Branson again and check out all the changes for myself.

However this time around, I will definitely not be staying at the cheap hotels like those college days. I think a stay at either the Hilton Promenade at Branson Landing or Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel will be very nice. What will we do there? Revisit all my old haunts and of course check out the new attractions. I will love to bring my 4 year old to Silver Dollar City. She will not be old enough for the rides yet but she will love to see all the crafts of the yesteryears.

When we were on our Alaskan cruise last summer, my daughter loved the dinner shows. So a dinner show aboard the Showboat Branson Belle is definitely on the itinerary. We will also plan to attend some live shows as well. Wow, that’s a lot of things to do. I think I will have to start planning my trip soon.

This is SO……..overdue but I finally got around to sorting my photos from the Alaskan cruise. There are too many photos so I am not going to post them individually here. Click HERE to check out my photos in Flickr. It’s not complete yet so I will continue to update them.

My husband loves to play golf and his ultimate vacation plan is to go to nice golf resorts and play golf all day long. I think his dream is about to materialize soon with the help of LasVegasGolfing.com. With the great golf vacation package that they are offering, my husband will not only be able to play discount golf in Las Vegas, he will also be able to play in some of the top golf courses there. These golf courses have been designed and played by some of the greatest players in golf. He can even customize his own dream golf vacation to include different golf courses and accommodation. I am sure that my husband will be thrilled with the golf vacation packages at LasVegasGolfing.com.

Every year I look forward to 2 months - April & July. Why? Because the tulips bloom in April and the lavenders bloom in July. Every year I always try to visit the tulip & lavender farms. I never seem to get tired of it. The lavender farms are not as colorful as the tulip farms but they definitely smell a lot better. Imagine a whole field filled with the fragrance of lavender….. Mmmmm …..

This year we were a little early to the lavender farms because I wanted to bring my parents there before they leave. The lavenders were not in full bloom, so we only saw a couple of patches of lavender instead of the entire field. They were still pretty though.

Apparently ladybugs love lavenders too! There were a lot of ladybugs amongst the lavenders that day.

White Lavenders

When my parents were in town, we visited many local tourist attractions. One of them was the Museum of Flight which is one of the largest air and space museum around.

The museum is pretty big and it has lots of airplanes on display. According to their fact sheet, there is more than 150 historically significant air and spacecraft on display.

Even flight engines are on display too.

It is an interesting place but if you are not into aviation, this is not the place to be. My nephew will love this place since he loves all sorts of plane. Lil’ C is not quite into aviation stuff yet so she got a little bored. Then she discovered this little corner for kids.

She got to ride in an airplane and loved it. There were also some games in there. It was hard to pull her away from this play area.

Would I visit again? Only if I have a visitor who is an aviation buff.

The last time I went to Las Vegas was 20 years ago while I was still in college. I haven’t been back since then. My parents just went for their Las Vegas vacations
last month and according to them, a lot has changed. They were very impressed with all the new buildings on the strip. It looks like I should plan a trip there soon. Most probably it will have to be next year since I already have other travel plans finalized for this year.

My parents will be staying with me for another 2 weeks. Lil’ C is also out of school. So for this week, I will be playing tour guide again so that I don’t have 3 bored people in the house. My parents have already done the Seattle sights from Part 1. I am trying to figure out where else to bring them. Here’s my list so far. 

• Museum of Flight
• Chateau Ste Michelle
• Cougar Mountain Zoo
• Woodland Park Zoo
• South 47 Farm

Let’s see if the weather will cooperate this week. Otherwise we might just end up visiting the local malls.

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It’s off to sea I’ll go . . . . . . .  Finally, I am off on my cruise to Alaska. I know there will be internet onboard but I think it will very expensive. So I have decided to leave my laptop and the cyberworld behind for 8 days. I have a feeling that I will try to sneak in just a little internet time while onboard. We’ll see. Just in case I don’t have access, I decided to finish up all my pending assignments. So please bear with me hor? I promise I will show lots of photos when I get back. Have a great week everyone! 

 P/S: For my fellow Photo Hunter friends, if you are looking for my entry,I didn’t manage to get it done this week. I will probably miss it next week too but I’ll be back after that. Thanks for dropping by.  

 Woohoo…. just received our fancy-schmancy cruise tickets today. That means in less than a month, we will be going on a cruise to Alaska!! My parents and a couple of their friends will be joining us for this week-long cruise. I have been wanting to go on a cruise for a long time. All I’ve got to do now is pray for good weather and calm seas so that no one will get sea sick!!!