Woke up to us coming into port at Skagway – A goldrush town from the 1880’s now serving cruiseship tourists. The town is home to about 800 locals but 10,000 people a day during the summer. The town has kept their wild west look and feel. The wooden buildings are now jewelry shops and art shops. Not my kinds of shopping. We left the kids on the ship for the whole day today while we went to town. We docked right at the towns edge so it was only a 10 minute walk to the heart of this 5 block town.

John and Shelly and the girls took a tour of the area in an old 1951 caddy. They enjoyed it. Dad and I took a bus tour up through the white pass Yukon trail to Canada. We were 100 miles away from Whitehorse. Dad and I really liked this tour cause the guide really knew the area and loved his wildlife. We would stop every 10 minutes on this 3 hour tour looking at something. We saw spectacular scenery along with some distant views of mountain goats. He set us all up with binoculars and telescopes to see families of mountains goats on the sides of the mountains.
Back from the tour, Dad and I hit the brewery of course. Had a few pints of Alaskan Ale and then headed down the street and found John and Shelly in another bar hoisting back a few pints. We joined them for some $2 pints and stumbled out of there to return to the ship. We had a really fun day and had just enough drinks to be in a really good mood. Another great dinner in the dining room.