This is it!

We got off the boat for good in Whittier and got on a train. We had to go under lots of mountains so there were a few tunnels. My mom got a little bit nervous, as you can see.
On the other side of the mountains it was a whole different ecosystem. It wasn't rainy and cold anymore!

You can't really see it in this picture but there are a bunch of dead trees out there. There was a big earthquake and it shifted the ground about a foot and it exposed all of the trees to salt water and it killed them.
The train took us to Talkeetna which is where everyone who wants to climb McKinley has to stop and register. We were there in the off season so there were about 50 people around.

McKinley!
We were lucky to see the peak.

This is the aerial shot from our helicopter. We thought it was interesting that they had painted the names of the mountains and glaciers on them. Whose job is that?
After Talkeetna we went to Denali National Park. It was cool...and big. This is a dried up river.
Our driver let us out to take pictures and make cocoa with the water faucet on the side of her bus. Weird, huh?
After Denali we headed up to Fairbanks. We went on a riverboat thing and got to see two rivers meet. The cloudy water is glacier water. Cool, huh?

There are probably more interesting stories to tell, including my mom thinking we were dead, and an old man and lady cussing eachother out at an italian restaurant, but I'm sick of posting about Alaska.