The floor mats on the floors of the elevators remind us that it is Thursday. We docked in Skagway about 7:00 this morning. The town is at the end of a fairly narrow channel. There are snow covered mountain everywhere you look. The sun was shining and the temperature pretty mild.
We had breakfast in our room, in no hurry to disembark as we had no excursions schedules, although we probably should have taken the train ride.
We finally got our act together and took the short walk into town. It isn't much of a town. It looks like the model of Frontier Town from Disney World. It has wooden sidewalks and lots of small shops, the same ones we saw in Ketchikan and Juneau. With four cruise ships in port it over quadrupled the population of the town. It was so crowded you could hardly walk.
I was out in my shirt sleeves and it wan't raining. Both good things. We were back on the ship for a late lunch, having walked from one end of the town to the other. We stopped in a number of shops, but didn't buy much. The jewelry is really pretty, if that is what you are shopping for, there were some nice weavings and rugs, but most of the stuff was just overpriced tourist stuff. It reminded both Lois and I of the tourist towns of the Black Hills.
By the time we were heading back to the ship, the wind picked up and it got quite chilly. The blue sky we were enjoying turned overcast. The people coming of the next ship over are really bundled up. Both the Princess Lines and the Disney Line have shuttles for their passengers, which further have clogged the streets. We have notices that in every port, our ship has the best berth at the dock.
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