Skagway

What a fun day we had today. It started with us waking up at 2 a.m. We wanted to see the aurora borealis. We walked around the entire ship checking to see if there was any color. We were disappointed as it seems there was some cloud cover. The ship stewards were quite surprised to see and commented on this fact. So off we went back to bed and slept for a couple more hours. We boarded the White Pass Rail at around 8 o'clock. What a fantastic train ride. We saw so much. As we climbed higher up the mountains it got colder and colder.We really enjoyed this train ride and took many pictures. Once we left the train we went for a walk through town. We enjoyed a  nice lunch at the Red Onion saloon. It was fun. Mom has been really spoiled on this cruise. Today she received a card for a free gift at the Diamond international store. She received a  lovely heart shaped necklace. This necklace had a yellow diamond in the center. Mom was just thrilled because she was expecting to receive a charm not such a pretty necklace. Tomorrow we received a special dinner invitation at one of the special restaurants on board. We're looking forward to that. The other day everyone sang happy birthday to mom and they even gave her a special cake and there was balloons on our door. This has been a really fun vacation for us so far. There really isn't too much to see in Skagway. In some ways it's very similar to Juneau. The town is filled with Jewelery Stores.  There are 10 jewelry stores for everyone regular store. Its been fun shopping for jewelry and we look forward to wearing it when we retur.  Tonight we might go and listen to one of the Naturalist talk and look forward to preparing for a visit to Glacier Bay tomorrow.. It should be really beautiful there. We've taken many many pictures and will have a difficult time choosing which ones to include in our albums when we get started on creating it.  We enjoyed watching a magician last night

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