Hubbard Glacier, Day 7 Of Our Alaskan Cruise

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Hubbard Glacier is an enormous glacier and was part of our Alaskan cruise itinerary on our first cruise and also on the 7 day cruise we took to get back to Vancouver.

The ship passed slowly by the glacier, then turned around and gave the other side of the ship an equally good view of the 75 mile long, 6 mile wide massive block of ice. Unlike, Mendenhall Glacier that has been retreating for the past 300-400 years, Hubbard Glacier has been advancing for the past 100 years.

I loved watching these ice flows float by us. I had never seen one until our trip to Alaska and I didn't know they were called ice flows. One of the best things about travel is that you usually learn new things and see things you've never seen before.

On the first cruise, we went out on one of the decks and watched the glacier go by with Sandie and JT and it was cold.

On our back to back cruise, me and Soko followed our fellow cruisers as they walked to the observation deck. I don't know whether it was just colder this day or if it was because we were on the observation deck, but it was so cold that we could only stay out for a few minutes.

The hot chocolate was not hot enough to keep us even a tiny bit warm on the deck.

  

After watching the Hubbard Glacier go by, on our first cruise, it was time to get ready for the Egg Drop competition.  The first thing we had to do was pick up the float from our room and bring it down to the Centrum on the 4th floor. 

This is where we picked up our egg.

 

And then we were told to go up 5 floors where other contestants were waiting for the competition to start.

Me and Susan took the elevator up 5 floors with our creation and watched as one by one the floats were dropped to the Centrum by their creators. 

Most of them made it to the blue plastic floor covering. Some of them landed on the bar. Some got stuck on something along the way. Ours was the only one that sailed from side to side across the Centrum a couple of times before it landed exactly where it was supposed to, on the blue cover. 

It was hilarious! The crowd loved it and me and Susan got lots of high fives from our fellow competitors. Unfortunately, our egg broke but the cruise director told the audience that he liked the origami birds we hung on our float and then tossed it on top of the other losers lol! 

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