We got up this morning and went to church - we've missed a couple of Sundays so I was afraid we'd have to wear nametags so people would remember who we were! But I didn't need to worry! Last week, Pastor David started on a series about the book of Ruth. We did Chapter 2 today. We had 2 new couples at church today - both young couples - that was nice!
Back to the Alaskan travelogue! Today we're in Juneau...the capital of Alaska. I don't know why they chose Juneau - it can't be reached by road and it's definitely not the largest city! It is a unique town though. It's got an historic district called Creek Street - actually it's a red-light district from the past. Mostly it's little shops now though. Dolly's is still there - complete with girls calling you to come tour the place for $5.00...it only cost $3.00 for 3 minutes to visit Dolly! I guess that's inflation!!
In the middle of the street is a little "creek" with tons of fish and even a seal! I believe these are a different kind of salmon, but you couldn't prove it by me! That's probably why the seal was there - they eat salmon too! 
The seal was the hit of the day - he was just having a great time playing to the crowd!
Here are the girls from Dolly's. They didn't have a lot of business that day. They said it was pretty slow even with all the ships in port!
Today was the day we got to see our first whale too. Here he is. If it weren't for the spout, you'd never know it was a whale. It was black and not very big, but you could really follow him because of his spout.
If we'd been on the other side of the ship after Skagway, we'd have seen a BIG whale breach - jump out of the water. But we were on the starboard side and it's not easy to run across ship when you're on your balcony! Mary got a picture of it, so we'll have a print when she gets them sent to us. Regardless of his size, we DID see this little whale. After this one, we saw several more, along with porpoises...but I gave up trying to get a picture and just watched them! Our naturalist told us when you see birds, you know there are fish...if there are fish, there are whales!
More later...
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