Day's 3 and 4

Whew, it's been a while friends.  Believe it or not, in actuality I really AM down here pursing scholastic endeavors, and that's my legitimized excuse for not having kept you all up to date on the rest of our field trip.  My bad...I gotta hit the books every now and then.  I digress.  Back to the cruise, somewhere after my stomach started feeling better, I believe, is where we last met. The third day of our journey took us through calm waters (praise God in Heaven) that were surrounded by awesome mountains and islands, and we disembarked at this one spot where we hopped back into the little boats, and cruised ashore (with dolphins blazing our trail just feet ahead), and got to do a little nature hike on an island where the indigenous people used to live, but were wiped out by "the Man" (sound familiar America?).  The scenery was awesome, and at the top of our hike (the summit, if you will), gave us an incredible panoramic view that my photography skills were unable to do justice to.  You'll just have to take my word for it, it was GNARLY!  

The next day, after traveling up further through the fiords, we got back into the little boats yet again, and this time forded the ice cold waters (literally, there were chunks of ice floating in the water) to see this awesome glacier.  Don't worry, I kept the vibe warm by sporting my shorts, cause I'm a man like that.  But seriously, the weather was so nice (which they say usually isn't the cause), and I had no problems with the shorts (except for when our boat driver "accidently" drove us under a waterfall...moron).  The glacier was unbelievable, and what made it even more exciting was the numerous times when huge chunks cracked off, accompanied by the sounds of a dozen firing cannons, and plummeted into the water below, sending little ripples through the sea.  Don't fret, it wasn't anything threatening, cause clearly I'm alive and well as we speak.

So that's pretty much it for those days...I'll try and throw up the finale sometime this weekend. Hope all is well with you lovely people back in the U.S.!  Sing "America the Beautiful" for me if you get the chance...or salute the flag or something like that.  Love to all.