Holland America Farewell Dinner
Thursday, August 13, 2009.
Finally, our tour #27 comes to a close at a farewell dinner with our tour director.
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The Matthews
The Tour Group and Driver
HAL Tour Director Daniel Reynolds
Time to grab a plane and leave this place. 
Mountains: Whitehorse / Juneau / Vancouver
Hi–It sure was nice to hear from you, your pictures are really nice and alot of different ones that we didn’t have and We liked how you had them all organized. We have been so busy since we got home I have only started today downloading our pictures on the computer. We saw you at the airport just as we were boarding so we hope you had a safe trip home. Its hard to believe its been a week already–we were back to work on Monday and then Wednesday the 19th our daughter had the baby–BOY-JORDAN THOMAS CASEY 6# 3oz and 18″ long, lots of dark hair and of course cute as a button–so we have been busy taking care of the other 2 kids while she was in the hospital, he joins Jonathan 6yrs old and Jesalyn 2 1/2 yrs old so they are going to be a busy family!! This gives us 9 grandchildren–6 boys and 3 girls and the 10th one is due in November. We sure enjoyed meeting you and your granddaughter and we hope to keep in touch. We will send you some of our pictures just as soon as I get them all organized–as we did have some very nice pictures of all the animals. Take care and Thanks again we enjoyed looking at them–Dick and Sherry Thurk
Comment by Richard @Sherry Thurk — August 23, 2009 @ 2:31 PM
What a great job. The photos were great. Walter’s camera was lost in a cab in Vancouver in a taxi, so our photos are no more. We really enjoyed your work. Thanks alot.
Comment by Mary Dewey & Walter Yakaitis — August 25, 2009 @ 6:47 PM
Hi Harry.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We were delighted to receive your web page with your photos and comments and summaries. What a fine and fantastic job. Your photos are special. It was like reading a best seller book. So many wonderful memories for us to share. We are very grateful.
Hope all went well on your trip home. We arrived without any incidents, just happy memories of our wonderful group of people. Hooray for Group 27.
Our very best regards to you, Doris and Annie.
Bud (aka Pookie) & Joanne Platter
Comment by Bud & Joanne Platter — September 7, 2009 @ 12:51 PM
Wife and I are planning a trip to Alaska in2011 we enjoyed the pictures and all the Web sites. By the way we live in Syracuse NY
Comment by Robert Powell — October 5, 2009 @ 7:10 PM
Saw your link on Cruise Critic. Absolutely fabulous photos. I also like how you organized them. We have done 3 cruises to Alaska, but never to Anchorage. And we haven’t done the road trip. So your narrative and photos will be helpful in planning a future trip to Alaska.
Thanks for sharing.
Sharon
Comment by Sharon — October 14, 2009 @ 3:21 AM
What a great piece of work your album is. Thank you.
I will be doing the cruise tour on May 22 from Vancouver–ends in anchorage–same tour, but in reverse..
then in anchorage i am renting a car, driving to Homer–flying on a Cessna to Katmai to see grizzlies, after that driving to Seward for the day long marine tour
Thank you again
Julian
Gaithersburg, MD
Comment by Julian Greenspun — March 25, 2010 @ 5:05 PM
Thanks – we are doing a tour similiar to this one – Holland America but tour #3 starting on July 7, 2010 so now I have some idea of what to expect – thanks again – Robin
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Comment by Freddie Kilts — March 29, 2011 @ 4:54 PM