2012 Alaskan Vacation and Cruise Review

June 27 -- We arrived in Anchorage, Alaska at 1:45pm Alaska time, which felt like 4:45pm Texas time and were starving. After getting our rent car and checking in at the Holiday Inn Express, we went to Sourdough Mining Company for dinner. We wanted some of their famous Corn Fritters and honey butter, and they were delicious. DH had a double, open face chili burger.....he loved it, while I had a burger with swiss and mushrooms. It too was delicious. We drove around Anchorage a bit, and visited the Ship Creek area, but were tired and stuffed so we headed back to the hotel to hit the hot tub and then to bed.

June 28 -- After breakfast, we headed out to Knight's Taxidermy Shop. We had watched their tv show Mounted in Alaska on the History Channel and wanted to pay them a visit. The shop manager, Doug gave us the grand tour of the shop, we my DH really enjoyed. We also purchased a bear skin from them and they shipped it to Texas for us. We then went downtown to the Anchorage Museum. It really is a world class museum. We took the guided tour of the Alaskan History exhibit and thought it was well done. We had lunch at The Muse (cafe in the Museum) then finished the exhibit of photography of Bradford Washburn. He photographed Mt. McKInley and also led expeditions to its summit. The photos were excellent. We visited the Denali Winery which turned out to be more fun than expected. We visited with the owners for a couple of ours, tasting their wines, and purchasing some to take onboard. We will most definitely visit them again. We paid a visit to Carr's to purchase some snacks for the trip to Denali. Read more