While we waited to get off the ship for the day, Holly went to a cooking class with Club HAL. We didn't know they were making breakfast, or we wouldn't have had her eat with us!
They made pancakes and then got to put their own toppings on them.
Holly put whipped cream and sprinkles on hers . . . and promptly ate the whole thing - even after she had already eaten breakfast! You can also see the badge on her jacket I mentioned previously she had received from the Glacier Bay Park Ranger that visited Club HAL (it's covering the "A" in Canada).
We picked up a walkting tour map and went to the West End of town, looking for the historic buildings and points of interest.
As you could see from the first few pictures as the ship was docking, there are a lot of houses built on the steep hillside.
Along with the steep hillsides, come steep stairways. (Yes, Paul is pulling up the rear, working on his Blackberry!)
At the top of the stairway (which also happened to be a street!).
She wouldn't be a Luksun girl without a camera on her vacation!
Another of the "stairway" streets!
Check out this dog peaking out from his own window. . .
. . . his view?!
Actually, it's his own deck!
Our little poser . . .
We walked back through the tunnel to the newer side of town.
We even found the police department headquarters.
This was a lovely little park in town, called Whale Park, which was surrounded by streets on all sides. Holly loved the different sea creature benches. She wanted to pose here with the killer whale we let her choose to buy with the spending money that Poh-Poh gave her for the trip.
Reading up on one of the many totem poles in town - I didn't know this until I came home, but Ketchickan has the world's largest collection of standing totem poles.
Continuing our tour of Downtown, we found a great area where little bridges crossed Ketchikan Creek and there were quaint little shops all around.
We took a ride on this funicular tram up the side of the steep hill - at the top is Cape Fox Lodge, which looked like a really nice place to stay. There are other ways to get up there (i.e. walk!), but for $2, this was much more fun!
This is City Park with some great spots to relax under trees, beside Ketchikan Creek. Here you see some of the holding ponds for salmon that date back to the early 1900's when the city's first salmon hatchery was founded.
Beside the park is the Deer Mountain Tribal Hatchery and Eagle Center. The hatchery raises and releases more than 300,000 salmon, steelhead and rainbow trout each year. The Eagle Center cares for injured bald eagles and other birds, including owls.
In City Park, this lighted fountain was built in the 1930's - it was restored by volunteers in 1989.
Tonight's paper animal from Teguh was a penguin!
And our towel animal - an elephant!
Tonight was the on-deck Dessert Extravaganza at midnight. Everyone else was too tired, so I went by myself to check it out. I took a lot of pictures, but only ate a couple of things (honest!).
Some of the bread sculptures we saw on the Galley tour.
