Friday, July 30, 2010 The Atteburys, Adventure #3
This is our time to do the blog and guess what we did today? Laundry!!! I guess one has to do it sometime.
Before we did the chores Carole and Ken and Madi and Spence put on breakfast. We had camper’s omelets and toast. Yum. The camper’s omelets are beaten eggs in a plastic bag into which a person puts whatever they want into it. I put peppers, onions, mushrooms, and cheese in mine. Ken popped at least six plastic bags (sans air) into boiling water for 12 minutes and they’re ready to eat. Hot, but ready to eat. After we ate our delicious breakfast we had our travel meeting. We leave for Canada tomorrow.
We did our duty and then it was time to play. We headed for town and shopped for a while. As we pulled by the post office to mail some post cards we could see the Soapy Smith floosies sitting up in their windows trying to lure people into their show. It was funny because people were looking up with mouths agape trying to figure out what these girls were doing dangling their legs out of their window and what could they be saying. We went into the Skagway Mining Co. where the prices are good, and we bought ourselves a few mementoes to remember our trip to Alaska. Like I have to have something to remember this trip. For one thing I have tons of photos and there is dust all over everything to help us remember. We went into the Sarah Palin Store for laughs. They have everything Sarah in there. Good luck people. We went into several jewelry stores just to look at the glittering stones. We even went into the hardware store to see what they carry. Well they carry a little bit of everything like the required hardware, toys, camping gear, house wares, and souvenirs. The ocean liners must keep their stores going for the summer. We have seen at least three huge liners every day that we’ve been here. That’s at least 6,000 shoppers per day, (not counting us RVers). The sidewalks are boardwalks, and the store fronts are old Victorian with gingerbread and everything. It’s a cute little place. Quaint and not a bit modern like Juneau.
We had an early dinner tonight at the Stowaway Restaurant. It is right down on the dock where the ferries and ocean liners tie up. The food is great, and of course we had halibut. You just have to eat halibut here in Alaska. But the topper was the dessert Trecia had. It was peach bread pudding. It has coconut, raisins, and pecans in it. Fantastic.
The day is ending with everyone getting ready to hook up their towed and hit the hay for the long drive to Northern Beaver Post, YT. At least it gets dark now; we are getting only 17.5 hours of daylight now. With only six days left of our tour, I for one can’t believe that it’s almost over. We’ve made some lifelong friends in this eclectic group. It’s great to know if you need any help there is someone that can do it. These people even help strangers. Case in point Jim Northup helped another couple who were stranded with brakes that didn’t work on their car trailer. He spent his morning rebuilding said brakes out of the goodness of his heart; it’s a big one to boot. The bad part is we all split up and go our separate ways, while the good part is we have a whole bunch of new places to visit where we have good friends. We’re homeward bound.
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