Kit and Carol on the Road

Our ship landed in Juneau at around 2 pm. Talk about some tricky parallel parking. This was our first time on land in Alaska. Roland and Ann-Marie had booked a tour of the city and the Mendenhall Glacier but Kit and I took off on our own and found a $14 bus trip out to the Glacier. Kit was anxious to go to the State Museum but it was such a gorgeous day that I wanted some time outdoors. We only had an hour at the Glacier --took some photos and visited the visitor center. Then on our bouncy bus back to town. We stopped at the Museum for about an hour. The most amazing thing there was a huge globe that showed among other things, air traffic patterns around the world, and weather patterns in the last week. Juneau is a town which seems to be mostly diamond shops and other tourist shops. We found a book shop to buy a map--and a fabric shop. Then we went back to the ship for dinner. Though we were in port until 10pm there wasn't much reason to stay away.