onday is Labor Day - and marks our arrival in Glacier Bay just after breakfast - we have been steaming all night, having departed Juneau just before sunset. We'll be visiting two glaciers today and snapping photos. The sounds of the cracking of the ice is quite loud and almost constant as the glaciers surrender their centuries-old ice to the sea.

We'll be served hot coffee with brandy, split-pea soup (Wynne's favorite), and be treated to an exhibition by the Polar Bear Club, who will bravely take their dip in the heated pool on the rear sundeck. It will be a full day of enjoying the Alaska landscape in the low Forties as evidenced by Wynne's keeping her hands up in her coat sleeves.

And several Floridians will be heard saying, "I can actually see my breath" over and over again. It was excitiing to see up close some glaciers like the ones we'd seen from the air on our way to Taku.