Granny and her eagles...

My mom is here from Ohio and we are having SO MUCH FUN! She and the girls are just finishing the same book for the 1100th time this morning. now there are starting a new Pooh video. Yes, a real VHS video. Anyway, the girls are so happy that "Granny" is here. They will sure miss her when she goes next week.

Last Monday, Greg took the day off work. So Granny and I (me sans kids for the first time in almost five years!) went to Haines Alaska via the Alaska Marine Highway System for the day. We were on the F/V Malaspina and went up specifically to see the world's largest concentration of American Bald Eagles. It happens every fall at about the same time; thus, this: http://www.baldeaglefestival.org/index.html. We opted to avoid the people crowds so we could focus more on the eagle crowds. We must have seen about 500 eagles, maybe more. It was hard to tell since they wouldn't stay put. They were just magnificently mingling, as they are wont to do. The weather was great, the company first-rate, and the eagles were certainly abundant. Well, see for yourself:

Fortunately, we didn't stumble upon the brown bear crowds...
We will sure miss Granny when she leaves but have had a super time with her. And we still have five more days! Yay!