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On The Encore Again ๐Ÿšข๐Ÿป [Alaska With Mom]

So, my blog has been a bit abandoned… ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿ‘ˆ๐Ÿ’ง Iโ€™m so sorry about that. I also seem to be becoming more and more of a hermit. I am sorry about that, too.

Thereโ€™s been a bunch of reasons. Iโ€™ve been reading a lot (and I do mean a LOT), been kind of busy deep inside my own head, perhaps having not exactly a mid-life crisis as much as a mid-life reassessment, plus preparing for upcoming trips, and then going on them.

Let’s start with the Alaska cruise: it was amazing. When it comes to the trip’s details, this time, unlike last time, Iโ€™m making an effort to blog more about it.

To make it easier, I opted not to decorate my photos with purikura this time around, because I think that wanting to do that and not having time to do it was the main reason I didnโ€™t properly blog about the Alaska trip last year. So, I apologize if things are a little less colorful on this post.

With that said, this will be a very long and extremely image-intensive post. So I’m posting it under a cut.

FULL TRIP SUMMARY BELOW

โœจ๐ŸŒˆ Alaskan Cruise Souvenir Haul! ๐ŸŒˆโœจ

I would like to share the goodies I got on my trip! Iโ€™ll start with the fanciest thing I got which was this beautiful Alaska bag! I got it in Juneau. Itโ€™s big!

I also got this super cute Hello Kitty coloring book from a lovely anime store in Seattle!

One of the things I got at the Space Needle was maybe a pencil case? Or a Switch Lite case? But, I am keeping it for my upcoming Analogue Pocket later this year.

Hereโ€™s a pretty glass trivet I got in Alaska. Iโ€™ve been using it every day since we got home!

Space Needle rainbow mug! I got it as a pencil holder, because it canโ€™t even be put in the microwave (whatโ€™s up with that??)

Lots of random Alaska goodies! Many bear themed things, Taku Glacier Lodge stuff, and though you canโ€™t see it very well, a little pin of a bear riding a salmon that our partner picked for me.

Close-up of the pin, along with a coin and some other itemsโ€ฆ

Postcards, greeting cards, and stickers for scrapbooking! Both from Canada and Alaska. And one of my favorite things from the entire trip: Mr. DNAโ€™s Book Of Dinosaurs, which was a complete surprise from our partner while at Pike Place Market. I really treasure it!

More Space Needle goodies, and also some Canada ones! Thereโ€™s an Alaska sticker there too.

A couple of Norwegian Encore goodies and an Canadian wildlife keychain!

Iโ€™m really happy with the two NCL Encore souvenirs I got. This Christmas ornament is shaped exactly like our ship!

Finally here is a close-up of this medallion. I thought it was really neat.