WHAT, THE RAIN STOP?

Today's amazing Alaska fact:  Alaskans consume more ice cream per citizen than any other state, Puerto Rico, or American Samoa.

'Twas still raining hard yesterday morning in Seward as we awoke and wondered if Lanky ever got home with his takeout dinner.

So we went to a kind of aquarium/sea museum called the Alaska Sealife Center. They had just doubled their size this year and were doing a brisk business. You could easily spend two or three hours there watching seals swim in circles or puffins performing or watching films about ocean life. We did.

Just to prove we didn't waste our time, we now are aware that bowhead whales can live to 200 years old.  It's all about diet and exercise.

We then drove inland and northward to Anchorage, where we're duly anchored in a downtown motel. The rain finally stopped about a half hour inland from Seward.