Thankfully the fireworks here were a dud. They shot them off last night at about midnight (on the third of July) and they were just loud booms that even a deaf dog could hear. The actual fireworks lasted about five minutes. No one here even looked out the window. I don’t know if I mentioned that we only have about three hours of darkness each day. It stays light till after midnight, and it is light again by three of four in the morning. Guess we really are in the land of the Midnight Sun.
This morning after breakfast my humans and about 15,000 cruise passengers went into town to watch the Fourth of July parade. It was a lot of fun. The parade started off with a steam locomotive puffing smoke and blaring the loudest horn imaginable. That was followed by numerous “floats” from practically every business in town. Really creative costumes and trucks decorated for the holiday and local kids throwing candy everywhere. A real hometown parade.
This is our last night here in Skagway and tomorrow we will head to Whitehorse, back into the Yukon Territory. It’s been really nice here, so cool and windy that we never saw a mosquito in five days.
This evening apparently the cocktail moratorium has ended with Kathy T making a red, white and blue cocktail. Vanilla vodka, grenadine and blue curaçao. Warren made his delicious, barbecued ribs, twice baked potatoes and a panna cotta for dessert.
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