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It is..REALLY weird being 30 years old now. O_o I remember turning 20 was weird, but 30 is even weirder haha. It was another nice day as we drove up to Portage Glacier..I think that was at least my fourth time taking the boat out to the glacier (it has definitely changed since I was first there in 2009!). What better way to celebrate than standing in front of a glacier? I love that feeling lol. Portage is actually a pretty small glacier, but still looks big when you're up close (the face of it is actually half a mile wide!). Whoever named some of the glaciers around that area must have liked poetry, because three of them are named Byron, Shakespeare and Burns haha. It never seems like we spend long enough at the glaciers when I do those kind of cruises, but they have other cruises to do as well. :P It was lovely staring at the pretty blue ice though. <3 It didn't calve this time, but it's not really as active as other glaciers. As we walked into the visitor center, there was a geocache RIGHT THERE! It kinda felt like cheating signing the log since we didn't have to search for it lol. After we got back to Anchorage I went to Title Wave Books! I have little space left in my bags from all the books I've bought, so I was determined to only buy one or two..yeahh that didn't happen. :P I have little control in bookstores LOL. Somehow I'll find room. :P They had THREE copies of The Worst Journey in the World!! I had those editions, but I always love seeing Cherry's book :D (mom was like "phew! I was worried you'd buy every copy you'd come across!" haha). After having fun there, we found some geocaches and then had dinner at Olive Garden! Mmmm four cheese ziti and breadsticks. Someone needs to build an Olive Garden in Fairbanks already! After that we found a couple more caches and headed back to the room. 30th birthday successful! :D

Tomorrow we fly back to Fairbanks..I'll miss the glaciers, but I'm tired and ready to go home lol. It was a great glacier-filled vacation though :D