Day 10 - Travel Day to Anchorage

With the sun shining and very few clouds, our drive back to Anchorage was a whole new experience compared to our rainy drive into Seward. The mountain peaks were stunning the entire way. This place has an embarrassment of beautiful riches, with mountains, lakes, vistas. And in maybe our most Alaskan nature spotting, we drove by a moose swimming through a lily pad pond.

We stopped for a while at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, an open-air animal rescue filled with native wolves, coyotes, bears, moose, caribou, porcupines and more. Then got back on the road and stopped at Beluga Point, where the Papa stood lookout with his binoculars while we scurried up a huge boulder outcropping. This place gave me big Northern California vibes.

We made it to our Airbnb and the boys went crazy for their loft bedroom. Later we stumbled into the most fun dinner location -- watching sea planes take off and land at Anchorage's small plane airport. It was the perfect night to watch these seaplanes get airborne.

Service was slow, but food was decent. It was a pretty perfect night until Holden decided to hide in a bush and wondered what would happen if he blew on a bee. That sucker stung him right on the kisser, ballooning his lip right on up. The rest of the evening was spent hunting down ice packs and Benadryl.

We also bid an early farewell to Papa whose flight had to change to an early departure Friday morning due to weather. We are so lucky he was able to join us on this trip. It was the cherry on top of all our adventures.Read more