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Jose and I are back from Alaska safe and sound. We got back to my apartment about an hour ago and had already planned to take today off work to nap, unpack, and check out all our photos. But now we get an unexpected extra day -- JSC has already decided to close tomorrow due to the impending Tropical Storm Edouard. In fact, they're closing at noon today.

Hooray for extra days of vacation, but it stinks to fly back to Houston only to be met with severe weather.

Alaska was, as expected, completely awesome. Many photos and stories to come, but here's a teaser for you -- a video Jose took during our flightseeing tour yesterday. We flew up the Capps Glacier and down the Triumvirate Glacier in a little Cessna 206. There were five of us in the plane including our pilot. These glaciers and peaks are about 60 miles west of Anchorage, but from our highest point, we could see Mt. McKinley and Mt. Foraker 100 miles to the north. It was absolutely incredible.