JUNEAU

Juneau was lovely today!  Not raining so it was wonderful to walk around.  I really expected that we would have rainier days when looking ahead at the forecast, however we were fortunate that it stayed away during the time we were in town. 

I headed straight for the quilt shop, Changing Tides. There was nothing that I wanted to buy.  I must have everything.  Actually according some people, I have too much!  I don't think that is possible.  Tomorrow I will try again in Skagway.  There has to be something I need.  My favourite shop in Ketchikan is now closed so tomorrow will be the last attempt to take back something quilty.

There were so many people in town!  There were ships were ships coming and going all day long.  In town at any one time there had to be 4 ships.  So tomorrow in smaller Skagway who knows how many we will arrive there.  Tomorrow we are going to have to go by tender to the town, so there will be more than a couple of ships in Skagway.  

I made eye contact with one girl who was promoting "eye cream to look 10 years younger.  So in we all went for my treatment.  With a Qtip she spread some goop on the underpart of my eyes.  Soon I felt the "tightening" and there I was ... Beautified for all to see. However, I found I really didn't like the feeling having never worn any kind of face makeup so my brief foray into 10 years younger ended and now I am back to all 73 years of me.

Had coffee at a native Alaskan coffee shop called Sacred   and had a ice latte Nancy treated us to.  It was a guieter place than some of the others we passed by.  It was nice to sit and relax.  Our next stop was the T-Shirt Company - the place with the red shopping bags.  I was so looking forward to getting a new jacket.  They don't sell jackets anmore.  Just sweatshirts and tshirts and the usual touristy stuff.  Needless to say I was disappointed.  Still, a lovely walk around the town.

Once we were back on board it was time to look for dinner.  It was easy to go to the walk in anytime dining.  So it was nice to know that we don't need a reservation to have dinner in the dining room.  We watched more of the game shows in the Explorer Lounge - that place seems to appeal to us with the variety of things they offer for entertainment in any given evening.  

Nancy left before us to go back to the room and with the Princess Medalion, we were able to watch on the map as she was making her way back to our stateroom. We chuckled over one wrong turn she made and it almost appeared as if she had jumped off the ship, however, after a couple of right turns we were able to see that she made it back safely.  The sun didn't really set until 10.30 so at least we knew that she wasn't lost in the dark.

So an hour later, we went back and we found her safely tucked in bed and reading.  It wasn't long before we were safely tucked in also.  Skagway tomorrow and some more exploring to do!