. Hana was in a HipHop number which was cool. There were 2 older girls who did a mirror image dance and they were really good.
drizzling rain. Here's our rainy decks. Certainly felt right at home. We appreciated our cruise weather so much - we really lucked in. We had a nice orderly disembarkation and caught the shuttle to Canada. Our driver had a great sense of humor and we stopped for a break and coffee at a rest stop with this magnificent old tree stump. When we got to the Border, our bus was 6th in line but the Border Inspector came out to us checked passports, took our declaration and said, 'Have a nice day'. 
Simple. I certainly recommend that for going through the Border.
considering the ratio of men to women is 5-1, is 'your odds of catching a man are pretty good, but the goods 
are odd'. I went walking around the town and passed the Eagles Hall where they have the Days of '98 Show, Gold Rush Entertainment that has 
been running for 82 years. The influence of early Russian settlers is apparent with local archtecture and trading beads in the museum. I went into the Red Onion Saloon. This local restaurant used to be a bordello but now offers a skit and has bedpans lining the wall. They have the AB Hall for the Alaska Brotherhood which was started back in the gold rush days for those who settled in the town.
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This town was first settled by Alaska natives, thousands of years ago. When the first white men, Joe Juneau and Richard Harris arrived about 1880, they found an Auk Indian fishing camp at the mouth of the Gold Creek. Chief Kaw.u helped them discover gold in Silverbow Basin and the rest is history.
Juneau, Alaska’s capital city, lies along the beautiful Gatineau Channel at the foot of snow-capped mountains Roberts and Juneau. We docked right in downtown and caught a shuttle to the Mendenhall Glacier, named for a scientist who helped survey and decide the border between Alaska and Canada. It is one of the 38 glaciers that flow from the 5000 sq. mile expanse of rock, snow and ice known as the Juneau icefields. Gravity pulls a glacier down slope, grinding the bedrock. It takes this ice 200-250 years to travel the 13 ½ miles to the lake. The glacier calves into the lake, filled with icebergs, where the ice retreats 100-150’ per year. Glacier ice appears blue because it absorbs all the colours of the spectrum except blue which it transmits. White also appears as the air pockets fracture the ice, scattering the visible light spectrum. Here you can hike trails up to the glacier. As glaciers move, they grind rock into a fine powder called rock flour, which is blown across the glacier causing it to look dirty. It also escapes with the glacier melt water to create the lakes’ murky colour. As we approached the glacier, we found a bear cub up a tree. Our driver hates them as they get into their garbage no matter what they do. You can see the icebergs in the lake. There was a great Interpretive Center that showed 2 movies. Our Native guide gave us lots of information and I was surprised by the wetlands up the channel.
We left Juneau at 3:30 and headed up Tracy Arm to the Sawyer Glacier. 
The icebergs were amazing and so numerous that the Captain was steering left and right going around them. We made the 'big bend' a 90 degree angle, then the S turn and were so close when we had to turn around.Too many icebergs, too dangerous. Spent a glorious afternoon on deck.
After a day at sea, we arrived in Alaska’s First City, the Salmon Capital of the World at 8 a.m. in beautiful sunshine. Ketchikan’s name is an adaptation of the native name of the local creek. This island community, accessible only by sea or air, is located on Revillagegedo Island on the famed Alaska Inside Passage. As we had breakfast we were amazed by the amount of activity, boats and seaplanes in this very busy place. You land at the dock on Front St. which is lined with all the tourist specialty shops and about 30 jewelery stores, most which were giving away free charms. Walking around town, I toured the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center which was incredible. The entry has 3 exquisitely carved totem poles soaring to the ceiling, next to a stuffed brown bear. Next you walk through a rainforest with animals and birds calling and running water from the stream. The Ecosystem room showed the salmon on Ketchikan Creek on the underwater camera by the hatchery. There are exhibits on fishing, recreation, wildlife, mining and more. The whole town sits on a small strip of land backing into the Tongass National Forest, 17 million acres in size, the largest National Forest in the U.S., designated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. It is the largest temperate rainforest in the world, a land of beauty, mystery and untold natural resources. Ketchikan has 162” rainfall and 32” snow per year. My walk took me to Creek Street, built on stilts along Ketchikan Creek. In 1903, the city council ordered all the bordellos moved across the creek from the townsite so this area was the red light district from 1903 – 1953. There were more than 30 bawdy houses with 1-2 working girls lining the boardwalk. During Prohibition, rowboats slipped in on high tide and smuggled liquor slipped up thorough the trapdoors. Today ‘Dolly’ stands outside her house which is the same as she left it when she left town.
