My parents and brother(K) and sister-in-law (R)  have been visiting from Texas since last Friday.  We've been having lots of fun and staying very busy.   On the weekend Nathan and I, my dad, and K & R went to Admiralty Island to a remote cabin.   I have more photos of our trip on my other photo blog.  Here's a few others:

We flew over in a float plane.  It was really fun, and a tight fit.   We stayed only one night and used the rowboat on South Young lake:

We hiked over to the other cabin the next morning:

We did see a brown bear on the other side of the lake, but the photo is pretty fuzzy, and not worth showing.  We flew back Sunday afternoon, right before it became too cloudy for the pilot to get in.  He had to circle around for awhile before he could land on the lake, but was able to get in and get us out.  We were very thankful, we were getting a little tired of dehydrated camping food, and enjoyed our rib-eyes on Sunday night back at home.

On Monday we saw two black bears on the Mt. Roberts trail.   They were far away, but I think you can see this one is a bear:

Here's the whole fam, minus Nathan - who is working away while we are playing:

Then on Tuesday we went panning for gold.  We found several flakes.  A friend from church showed us how to do it.  All-in-all we could probably cash in our gold flakes for enough money for a happy meal.   (When Bob mentioned the happy meal, Tristan was ready to cash it in!)   Here's my dad trying his luck:

This morning we went over to the glacier, and hope to go fishing this afternoon.   We're still hoping to see the sun sometime this week :)   Since Saturday, I have seen 5 bears (1 brown, 4 black), but have yet to get a decent picture.   I think August is the month to really see a lot of bears here.