We woke up super early after our night out on the town to go play tourist for the day! We packed lots of pb&j's and other goodies, and headed out to Portage Glacier. We all went together in the minivan (yes dad, brilliant idea). The weather wasn't very cooperative with us, so we didn't go on the boat out to the glacier, but we did check out the visitor center and walked out to the viewing creek and watched the spawning salmon.
When we got done at Portage, dad got some wild hair to drive through the new Whittier tunnel because he had never been. Not much going on in Whittier... we turned around after we ate lunch. Although, there was a pretty big waterfall that we all enjoyed. We also got to look at the old burned down housing units that were lost in the 80's, and the new ones that have replaced them. That's about all there was too see there.
On our way back to Anchorage we stopped by the AWCC - Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. We couldn't have timed it any more perfectly. When we pulled in they started to feed the grizzly bears. It was really cool seeing the bears fight over frozen salmon fillets. They guy throwing them in the cage missed, and accidentally threw it at my aunt. It was classic. The caribou that we saw made lots of random screeching noises at us and played around with his antlers on the ground. It was great to see the animals in their habitat, rather than at the zoo; much more entertaining.
After an exhausting day, we ordered pizza from the Moose' Tooth Pizzeria and Pub and had a nice glass of cold Apple Beer! A great way to end a long and eventful day!
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