We
were up early for our first day in Alaska!
After a quick breakfast at Garden Café, we made sure to take a picture of
Josh with Ketchikan in the background to celebrate his 50th
state!!!
We got off the boat after
having our picture taken with an eagle J There were fun photo ops each day, and it didn't occur to me that they were all sponsored by Norwegian, so if I wanted any of those pictures we had to buy them all! I would have loved a fun collection of cheesy pictures, but I'm pretty sure Josh is just find not having those souvenirs... ;)
We
pretty much headed right over to the lumberjack show where we were divided into
two sides: Dawson Creek (Canada) vs. Spruce Mill (USA). This was Mom and Dad’s first stop of the day
too before they continued on the Totem Bight Totem Pole tour.
Each team had two lumberjacks to root for,
and we learned a special cheer.
The
lumberjacks competed in eight different events, and Dawson Creek ended up
winning (that was our side)! The whole
show was really fun—a great start to our time in Alaska!
We took off on our own after the show for an
original geocaching tour of Ketchikan!
We started right around town finding several caches, including many that
gave us pretty views of the water and all of the fishing boats.
I was really proud of myself for finding a
particularly tricky one—it was a green magnet sheet on a green power box with a
page protector underneath holding the log!
We walked along Creek Street (the famous street that once held many
brothels) and saw thousands of salmon swimming in the creek and up
the salmon ladder.
We took a short walk
to the Totem Heritage Center where there was a neat cache hidden amongst some
HUGE trees with even larger tangled roots.
We took the Downtown Bus to the area where we wanted to start our
hike.
We climbed a serious set of
stairs, both concrete and wooden all the way up into the forest.
There was a glorious view of the mountains,
clouds and the fishing boats. We know
for sure we saw Wild Bill’s boat, Cape Caution, and we really think we saw a
few others from “Deadliest Catch!!!”
We
had a really wonderful hike through the rainforest, which is so much different
from our forests at home. There was
always something neat to look at as we walked.
We found several really clever hides of geocaches before heading back
down into town.
Before splitting up to
cache/shop, we did a multi-cache which included visiting three different totem
poles and answering different questions about them in order to fill in the
coordinates for the final cache. That
was a fun way to check out some of the town.
Josh went to go find a few more caches while I headed into the shops to
browse. We met just before all aboard to
get back on the ship. We went
immediately for food! We ate at
Topsiders Grill right by the pool.
At 4:00,
we all met to have drinks and play Quirkel.
We had dinner at La Cucina, the Italian specialty restaurant. It was really yummy!
And, our towel art for the night: A frog!
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