Our third port was Skagway, which isn't much of a town. I didn't even take pictures of getting off the ship. I'm trying to remember what it looked like, and I can't. I'll need to see if Katie or Hayley took any photos. I'm pretty sure we had brekky in the buffet because one of the other days we ordered room service breakfast and they brought lots of the wrong things and wouldn't deliver if we weren't in the room, which we weren't and it was a whole issue and we weren't doing that again. So I think we got up early to make sure we ate what we wanted relatively quickly and then headed off the ship to catch our bus up into Canada.
The tour guide pointed out various points of interest on they way, including a giant T-Rex made of who-knows-what that was in a parade several years ago and now resides in someone's yard. He also pointed out that the town charter stipulated that for every bar in town there must be a church--or maybe that was the Juneau tour guide--but this guy DID point out 3 out of 4 churches in Skagway, one of which was a dark brown building which was an LDS building, which the three of us were pretty sure he was. Mostly because he talked like a Utahn. And he was. He is a college student majoring in geology (Katie liked that) but he is going to school I think in Logan, where Matt lives.
We really liked this excursion. The bus stopped every 20 minutes or so for us all to disembark and look at the landscape, which was pretty fabulous. When we passed into Canada, a Canadian customs agent boarded the bus and had us hold up our passports, open to the page with our pictures, and she walked among us and looked at us. No one was told to get off. Took maybe two minutes.
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| Still this much snow in the middle of March |
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| Kids and their desire to climb on snowbanks. |
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| I couldn't get enough of this view! |
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| I could live here if there was a grocery store nearby |
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| The clouds make this picture extra cool |
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| We've all been to Canada before, but not this cool part of Canada |
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| I want to go on walkies here! |
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| Almost as good as a sunset photo |
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| Katie! |
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| People are so nice to take pictures of us and we have had many opportunities to take pictures of other people. |
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| The suspension bridge! |
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| I love a river picture! |
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| It looks sort of swingy |
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| I hugged the sides most of the way across and tried not to look down. The girls caught on to my nervousness and would shake the bridge so that I would wobble. Not very nice! |
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| an array of bottles inside the cabin |
More later in a different post. I can't deal with Blogger's formatting weirdness at the moment.
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