Alaska, day 3

Day 3 of our Alaskan cruise took us to Ketchikan. We docked around 6am, but that didn't matter to Madylinn. She decided to sleep in. When her majesty finally arose, we set off for breakfast and

then made our way out to explore Ketchikan.

Once off the boat, we were greeted with a cute little statue at one of the restaurants...

Please don't feed the bears, lol

We proceeded to Creek Street, which is a famous row of stores that were, at one time, all brothels (whore houses). Their saying there is "Both the salmon and the men come upstream to spawn".

As you would assume, there is a creek that runs below all of the stores there, and in that stream are about a zillion and a half salmon. I've never seen that many fish in one place in my entire life! The stream where the salmon would jump up

Mady thoroughly loved the salmon and Creek Street, even though she slept through about half of it.

After leaving Creek Street, we made our way to an area of town where they had lots of vendors and an animal rescue. At the animal rescue place, they had a screach owl that was full grown and only about 6 inches tall, they had a horned owl with a broken wing, and they had a female bald eagle that was recovering from surgery. They were very tame, and we could get very close to them. It was amazing.

After that, we went shopping in the many stores that are by the docks. Then, before we left Ketchikan, we stopped for lunch and Frank and I had a few beers.

Alaskan brewed beer

We, of course, stopped on the pier for some cheesey pictures...

Mady loved the bear

The boat left Ketchikan at around 2pm, so we spent the rest of the evening enjoying the beautiful scenery

The mountains over Ketchikan

(there are 2 whales there...do you see the whale tail and the whale spray next to it?)

Stay tuned for more of our Alaskan cruise tomorrow :)