Top 10 Kodiak trip highlights (so far)

1. Managing to get our huge, supposed-to-be checked bag through carry-on security after purging all liquids and leaving them with a secret contact. (All valuable contents ... like my expensive hair stuff ... secured and in hands of friends.)
2. Seeing real wildlife ... like eagles, puffins, sea lions, porpoises, sea otters and a really cool fox.
3. Waiting on the second floor with no railing in a dark, dark cabin in the middle of the night to pee in a weird funnel contraption because I couldn't climb down the ladder in the dark and face being met by a bear outside.
4. Seeing the parents of our future grandchild and our other Boy who made a trip to E.R. for a partially sliced off tip of his index finger.
5. Flying in a small plane over The Emerald Isle on a calm, sunny day to explore property in Viekoda Bay.
6. Catching a 34-pound king salmon for the first time and eating king salmon!
7. Spending time with some longtime friends of Robin's.
8. Trying Sarah Palin Pale Ale beer at the Kodiak Brewery.
9. Enjoying nice, cool comfortable weather (upper 50s) and not being all sweaty and slimed up from sunscreen.
10. Seeing Kodiak and all the places Robin knows and being on the Alaskan waters again.