Today we were up pretty early so we could see the Sawyer Glacier. This glacier created the Tracy Arm Fjord. A fjord is a narrow inlet from the sea between steep cliffs. The glacier carved out the fjord between the mountains. The water from the glacier helped to create the sea passage that leads back to where the glacier is today.
It was COLD on deck early in the morning. I was extra bundled up. The ship moved slowly through the fjord. There were icebergs all along the way.
You can see Sawyer Glacier off in the distance between the mountains.
The glacier is magnificent. The varying shades of blue throughout the glacier are captivating to the eye.
While we were admiring the glacier, it "calved." Calving is when a piece of the glacier breaks off and falls into the water below. When it does that, there is a loud thunderous noise as it breaks away. 
Brent had his binoculars out the entire time. He and another man were able to spot seals swimming in the water below and lounging on icebergs.
The cruise ship had to navigate around this island on the way to the glacier and on the way back out.
If you were to enlarge this picture, you would see two seals on the iceberg in the middle. We were looking at the seals from the 10th floor deck so it was hard to get a good picture of them.
Icebergs littered the path that the ship had to carefully navigate through.
We spent the rest of the day out on the open seas. So this night was another formal night. It was fun to get dressed up again and pose for pictures :) 
Later that evening the cruise ship hosted the "Love and Marriage" game show. They needed three couples to participate. They tried to get the couple who had been married the longest to be one of the contestants. However, they declined. Fortunately, Lyn and Carole said they would go up (it was their 49th anniversary). It was fun to watch them answer questions about each other and to hear the answers the other couples gave. We had lots of laughs that evening!
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