Juneau

This is Ann & Heather’s last full day in Juneau (and with us). Today we got up and ready to leave the boat by 11am. Fred stayed on the boat (“been there/done that”). Heather, Ann and I went down to the Mt Robert’s Tram first since the mountain was clear as a bell and not a cloud hovering over it. So we bought our tickets ($27/each!) and headed up. We went and saw the Eagle they have in captivity up there. It’s the same one I saw last time up there. It was shot by someone with a BB gun 3 years ago, and is now blind in one eye. It can never live on its own again, so it is being taken care of. We were taking pictures of the view down to the cruise ship docks and town, when one young woman in her 20’s asked if we would like a pic of all 3 of us, which we did. We ended up chatting with her and her friend a while who were both crew on one of the Princess Cruise ships below. Both work in the child care/activity programs. And one wants to be a nurse, so that gave me and her something to chat about for a few. That same woman just spent a year in Amsterdam, now the season on a ship, then Italy for a year starting in Sept, then a year in Africa for a year after that to help medical personal over there. Talk about ambition. Anyway, we saw what there was to see, did the gift shop thing, and headed back down. It was probably 2:30pm at this point and we hadn’t had lunch, so we were hungry. We ended up at the ‘Twisted Fish Company’ near the cruise ship docks. Everything was excellent! After eating we bought our round trip shuttle tickets to Mendenhall Glacier ($7/each way). The sky was amazingly blue and really warm (low 80’s) The glacier was as beautiful as I remember, only a lot more crowded with people. We only stayed half an hour, and then headed back to town for some last minute shopping. We ended back up at ‘The Hangar on the Wharf’ for our dinner reservations. Heather & Ann treated us again to dinner. The fish (halibut) & chips are excellent. Really very nice of them. Heather & Ann packed all of their stuff up once we got back. And now Heather is up at 11:30pm, alone, burning the rest of all of our photos and videos to CDs to take home with them.