Weeeee! let the games begin!!

Hanging out at the Haines Police and Fire Station in one! Check out the Whale!

Arrived at Haines, AK

Finally our first town that we can actually walk around. It's pretty small but thats alright. The morning was all drenched in rain. Folks are calling this 'very unusual weather, last week it was 75 degrees.' I betcha it's bloody sunny at Pacifica! Haines is the land of Totem poles. Originally the town was a fort. At the parade grounds is a Totem pole center and saw peoples doing the spiffy work carving n carving. Too bad these suckers are too big to hang off of.. heh
Fluffielady n i wanted to take a ferry to the nearby town of Skagway. But 50$ each for a round-trip just to stay 2 or so hours wasn't going to be worth it. It seems that the businessfolk of Haines doesn't like much of Skagway. Calling it owned by the Cruise Lines and done up accordingly. Skagway is made up to look like period Alaska during the good old days. Also all the tourist books have some crazy coupons for many of the places there. Oh well, we probably wouldn't buy anything anyhow then feel jipped of going all that way. i still can't seem to find a net connection, oi!
Funny thing is that the ship did a drill, and the announcer states that the oncoming messages are for staff only. The first thing he says is, 'Passengers and Staff, please return to your rooms and put on your life vests.. there is a fire in c-section... Crew, please make ready the life rafts... ' and every once in a while the announcer said that the announcements are meant for staff. Next was 'abandon ships, crew and passengers must load on the rafts and egress.' We just happen to be done with lunch and went to the room to change to run around town and we find a bunch of passengers dressed in their life vests in a panic. DOH!
But the best thing i saw was the Hammer Museum!