Hey everyone its day five on our cruise to Alaska on board the Norwegian Joy and today we are in Skagway. So check it out
Hey, everyone is day five on our cruise to Alaska onboard the Norwegian joy
And I'm Ken from Northern Viking Explorer
I'm Andrea and we are in Skagway, Alaska and we're gonna have an amazing day today. What are we doing?
We're gonna walk into town. We're gonna do some shopping
Check out the stores that are down there. I hear there's lots of shopping here
we're also gonna do what we are gonna do a hike up to
Lower Dewey Lake and I hear there's a good lookout up there that you can see some of the cruise ships as well
So we're gonna have an amazing day. So let's get right into it
Up on the pool deck this morning. You can see it's nice and quiet
It would be a good time to hop in the hot tub if you're wanting to do that
over on the side of the ship
You can see there's a princess ship and a Royal Caribbean ship
In Skagway this morning downtown is in front of those ships there and there are some amazing views and we are gonna have amazing
Weather today. Look how gorgeous these mountains are
But before we go for breakfast we are gonna play a quick game of ping pong
Everybody's got to play ping pong once in a while
But as we look down over the edge
We can see that our fellow passengers are heading into Skagway and we are at the far edge of the pier
Ladies and gentlemen, this announcement is to
And we're taking steps necessary to control the situation
Please away the orders given by the crew and avoid this area Dec 16 and in the galaxy nobilion
All right, so that was all a drill
But I'm happy that they're doing safety drills to keep us safe on the ship
There was some small delays of a couple minutes in the hallway where we couldn't walk through but nothing too bad
Quick tip for you guys the fish on the floor in the carpet all point towards the front of the ship. So
You can follow them
Other ships and who do we find our sister ship the
Norwegian blitz so there will be lots of Norwegian passengers today. Yes
Yes, and one other cool thing while you're here
make sure you stop and look at the
mountainside all the ships and their captains have had logos painted on the side of the mount and this is just a small portion of
It but it's really cool to look out. You see some carnival ones up there
There's Norwegian ones all sorts of different ships. Make sure you stop and have a look at that. It's really interesting
it really was cool now so we figured this is about a
3/4 of a mile walk to the edge of town
So it is a longer walk, but it's it's nice and flat, so it's not too bad
yeah, it was an easy walk really easy and we've made it -
Welcome to Skagway sign beautiful mountains here the mountain side on the right hand side is where we're planning on hiking today
But - this area here, the railroad track area is probably about a 3/4 of a mile walk
Now when you get into town right away, you are gonna see the Train shop, which is really interesting
That's where you can book
Excursions for the trains. They've also got some old trains over here that you can check out make sure you take pictures over there
Well show you that in a moment, but when you head on inside, there's gonna be a coffee bar in here
lots of seating if you get tired out of the Sun and you can also fill up your
Water bottles in here with filtered water and they've got a really cool
Souvenir shop in here as well that you can check out
No, you can also head over and get your tickets
but I would really recommend if you want to do this that you booked this ahead of time because today
Almost everything was sold out. So if you want to do that and make sure you do that ahead of time
Yeah, um outside of those trains make sure you grab some good photos of yourself there and this was really cool
There is a piece that they put on in front of the trains that grinds away the snow and ice
So the trains can go through in the winter. Your kids will love looking at these trains take some pictures here. It is amazing
We're gonna head over to do a little bit of shopping the Alaskan shirt company's right here. We'll head on in there
there was some great deals a
T-shirt starting at $6.99. So if you're wanting to bring back souvenirs for people, that's a great price planning
So and here we have some hand towels. We actually picked up one of these from my mother-in-law
She loves the the moose in the northern animals that she's from northern, Finland
So that's really cool for her and lots of tubes and also the candy, of course, you can't go wrong with saltwater taffy
How can you go wrong? You need to pick that up also in this area? There's tons of other shops the red onion salon, okay?
We said so
Excellent, but that's what you call it. Right Andrea. Okay, we are gonna head into del Sol
Everybody needs a color changing shirt. And yes, I have had a
Color-changing sure in the past. I maybe don't wear it all the time now, I do I do. Have a nice
That's true this is a really cool building it is the visitors
Information Center and they cover the whole front of the building in
Sticks and made it look really old and cool
Very interesting to look at as well if you're interested in renting a bike today
You're gonna want to look for 5th Avenue and Broadway
We're gonna head down about half a block on Fifth Avenue
And we're looking for SOG. I cycle company. They do rentals and tours
We are gonna take a peek inside to see what they have on what the prices are
so it starts at $20 for two hours or
$45 for the day
Also while you're here, make sure you check out the Chilkoot pass
Harley-davidson if you want some souvenirs, you can get those here. They've got their
harley-davidson t-shirts these Chilkoot pass
harley-davidson shirts are
$35 and
If you're really feeling adventurous
Right. Next door is the
Skagway scooters you can rent scooters here as well as motorcycles
right next door to the Harley Davidson store and the pricing on these you are gonna be at
$45 per hour for the scooters and motorcycles start at $200 for four hours
Now if you also would like to take a tour hop on the Skagway, Alaska
Streetcar tour, you can sit and relax and see all the interesting points and right over there
You can actually see if that is their museum
Um, here's the train. So a lot of the trains came back into town
This is the white path train. So they're dropping off the people from the morning excursion and picking them up for the afternoon
And they are off to enjoy the mountains in
Skagway
Between the town and the cruise Pierre is pulling Greek dream walk
It is a really nice part to enjoy the pathway is really flat
There's a nice little pond to sit by and lots of places to sit. A lot of people brought a lunch down here to enjoy
Okay, this is really funny. We're from Canada and
There's a lot of people here who don't know how to open a bear trashcan. These are called
bear saver trash cans and
Basically, you have to stick your hand in and push up lever and that'll release the trash can to be opened up. So
Don't be embarrassed. I just showed you how to use it, but we're gonna head off on the Dewey Lake trail system
we're gonna head off for our hike and
Head through the forest the the path to get there is quite flat
Watch out. This is a active train track
Here goes the white path train now
This area also is the tsunami evacuation area
They did have maps here, but they were totally out
Someone gave us one coming down the trail so we did grab one and it's also a black bear area
so watch out for bears I
Also want to say make sure you bring appropriate shoes. It was a little slippery here
So you're gonna want to make sure you have something with grips
So think about some shoes when you're packing and maybe some bug spray as well
It's beautiful up here, but it is steep
So we're about 20 minutes into the hike and we've reached the lookout
You can see the princess and the Royal Caribbean ships there great place for some photos
and if you peek off towards the left there you can see the front of the
Norwegian bliss and the joy is behind the bliss
So it looks like I'm shopping here in the mountains
But the whole hike is about 45 minutes to an hour to get to the lower lake
So that is what we're looking for
And you can see we are in good shape because we just ran up it at a hundred miles an hour here all that working
out in
Ketchikan on those stairs helped us out, but it is gorgeous here and
The water area was it warm? It was really warm
Now the camera doesn't show this but the bottom of the lake is glistening with these gold color specks
I know it's not real gold. But there's that inner child in me that just wants to believe it. We're crossing our fingers
it's real gold, but
anyway, it is
Really something and there's actually fish jumping all over here as well
Can you see the gold we found I know quick make a run for it
Again, get out of here with our gold
Don't tell anyone that we found it's such a good gold plot
So that's the mountain we climb way up to the top there to the lake and it's way back there again
It was about 45 minutes to an hour each way
so all of this walking
Shopping and hiking has made me really hungry. I think the buffet is calling my name
So we are gonna get back on board the beautiful joy and go find some lunch. Yeah, we'll head up to the buffet again
There's so many options here meats and cheeses
Pizzas which were really good all sorts of grilled cheese sandwiches and meats Asian style food
There's lots of options there as well as you can see
They also have some really delicious looking pre-made sandwiches
Too many options not enough time
So we're gonna spend most of the afternoon out by the pool swimming
We're gonna go on the water slide into the hot tub and do that
And here we go Alaskan water sliding
Who would have thought we'd be water sliding in Alaska? Yeah tons of fun
The water slide is warm. The pools are warm the hot tubs are warm. It's about 80 degrees out
It is amazing
But we're gonna head for dinner at the taste and know this is not five minutes after we just came from the buffet
This is as we're setting sail
Are you sailing away from Skagway?
What an amazing?
Romantic place to sit and eat dinner here together
But they keep bringing us all this bread and I feel like we got to eat it all and then they bring another
Basket, so I'm not sure what we're gonna do about that because we just keep getting more bread. But as you can see this is
Absolutely stunning here. We enjoyed some stuffed mushrooms tonight some fried chicken
I had some pasta and we both had some delicious delicious dessert
It was a really nice meal. It was really good. Hey, we just stepped out on deck 8. This is the back
What's it called Andrea the water from the waterfront and they've got some really cool
glass floors here that you can stand on
you can stand here on those if you dare and stare off the back of the ship and
If you're afraid of heights, maybe you shouldn't look here because one of them one's broken
I'm not sure what's going on under there. Watch out
I'm so excited
That's from the blacks
If you are interested in the tappan yaki, this is what it looks like it's a dinner show
Japanese food where they're throwing food in the air and doing tricks with the food as you eat
Again, this is what it looks like. It looks delicious
We didn't get a chance to try at this time, but I've heard amazing things about it
Now we're gonna head back to my favorite place. We're on decade again on the waterfront enjoying the sunset
It is just perfect out here
We had an amazing day in Skagway shopping then hiking up the mountain to the lake
We picked up some souvenirs for kids
and it was really
Really warm today our TV showed that it was over 80 degrees Fahrenheit
so it was like very rare that I gets that hot in Alaska people were saying it's a
Like it's I think it's amazing
So it was really hot, but it was really busy as well because the bliss was there and there was a princess up there
I think the Golden Princess and
Royal Caribbean ship was there so it was really busy poor ships and with a lot of people on these Norwegian
Ships it was really busy in town
People everywhere or so
Then we get back to the ship. We went swimming. We went I can't believe it honestly
I didn't expect to go swimming in Alaska. But when we got back on the ship it was hot
It was really hot. Yeah, we thought we'd just be in the hot tub
But we went swimming there was quite a few people out on the deck. So
The pool is warm. The pool was really warm
Yeah, so and the hot tub heated up is really cool at the beginning of the trip
And it's nice and warm today. So that was awesome. And I found a
Norwegian beach towel and way nicer than the last time we were on though we didn't I collect cruise ship towels so
This is I'm really happy to get this one. They found it in the
Beauty shop in the beauty shop. So yes, and what did you find that real?
Hiding it's from the black. It's come all the way from Frisco, Texas
so yeah, I felt like a little kid I was like
I was
Really excited. So that was a lot of fun and then we went to the comedy show tonight
Get set out on the deck and watch kind of a Sun setting it's that's quite late here
And actually we have to turn back the clocks or turn forward the clocks an hour tonight. Go back to the Pacific time
So we're losing an hour of sleep tomorrow. Is it C day? So maybe we'll sleep in a little bit and what's up tomorrow?
Well, first thing is we heard that the tapes were when we get off the ship will come out tomorrow
and select our time and we're hoping to check out the gold cards and the mini golf tomorrow and
Element is just playing. Yes a big show elements. We've got tickets for that plus a whole bunch of other stuff that we're gonna
tomorrow and
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