More leisurely this morning. The girls suite, Room 806, has 2 bedrooms and a bathroom as well as the kitchen/lounge area. Our suite, Room 814, has just the one bedroom, 1 bathroom and kitchen/lounge area. After breakfast in the girl's suite we all walked over to their biggest mall (bought more film), and then down to the Hard Rock Cafe (bought a t-shirt for me and a badge for Jess - not much stock). We then went on to their tower which had GREAT views. We had...

This morning we were out of bed early and up to breakfast (as was everyone else). We docked at about 7am and started disembarking at about 8am. This was a really well-organised process as we all waited in the public areas. When it came to our turn, we were disappointed to find that the little red QANTAS bag with all of the children's toys was not with the rest of the luggage. Hopefully it will turn up soon. We waited until all the luggage was unpacked and still...

We had a bit of a rough night - came out of the sheltered waters to enter the Pacific Ocean and travel down to Sitka. When we awoke (alarm at 6am for Jess and I, before going on our tour) we were already moored. Sitka doesn't have a wharf, so after Jess and I breakfasted we gathered with our tour companions in the theatre and were taken by tender over to the town. We had a tour of Sitka (including schools, Macca's, Subway and their only set of traffic lights),...

Today was just magnificent - the sights, the wildlife amongst the bergy bits - absolutely, awesomely wonderful!!

Wow - no entries in my diary for this day and I do recall it was wonderful. We were taken into the wilderness to a place called "Liarsville" - set up like a frontier campsite. We panned for gold, we were entertained by ladies of the night, we saw beautiful malamutes, and we were fed the most wonderfully delicious barbequed Alaskan Salmon! Any memories girls??