Ketchikan

After a full day on the boat, our first stop was Monday morning, in Ketchikan, Alaska. I think we ported at about 6 or 7 AM. David and I woke up to find that it was very WET outside. We ate breakfast and headed to our room contemplating whether we wanted to the Lumberjack Show excursion. Well, as we were discussing it in the elevator, a nice lady said she had one ticket and we could take that, then we would only need to purchase one more ticket. We asked why she didn't want it, and she said her husband was fishing and she didn't want to go alone. We offered for her to come with us, but she insisted that we take her ticket. Such generosity from a total stranger.

AROUND TOWN

So after we followed this nice lady around the boat for about 20 minutes as she tried to find her cabin, we set out for Ketchikan. It was very wet and rainy as we left. Within about 15 minutes, we were totally SOAKED. But we had fun just walking around town and taking pictures.

THE GREAK ALASKAN LUMBERJACK SHOW

This was seriously one of the highlights of my trip. It was so fun to see the amazing things that these men can do. The had a competition between 2 teams, the USA and Canada. I guess it was what they used to do a while ago. They did a series of events. It was so fun to watch them!

Chop through the wood stump

Axe Throw

Chopping a stump again I think

Putting planks in the tree, and "topping it off"

Tree climb...this was amazing

Log Run

Log Roll. And this was more than just keeping up with your opponent. They would kick water up at each other, anything they could do to distract eachother.

Of course we had to have our picture taken with them!

I bought the boys some long johns, with the bum flap at the souvenir shop...we'll have to get picture.

MORE AROUND TOWN

After the show, it wasn't raining anymore, and we had dried off, so we walked around some more.

We made our way to a famous street, which the name slips my mind. All the building are on stilts or whatever, and the street is on the water.

This was a famous....well, you should get the point from the phrase below. It is a museum now, but we didn't make our way in.

There was a HUGE staircase up the mountain, and we had some time to kill, so we hiked up those stairs.

What a view!

Walked through the tunnel, the boys would have LOVED that!

Then back to the boat!