Monday, September 14, 2009

Alaska, day 5

Day 5 of our vacation brought us to Skagway. Skagway is an old gold rush town, where men would come for a while to look for gold, and then leave again when the rush was over.

Skagway is like walking back into history. It's really quite fun. All the streets are still made of cobblestones, and the sidewalks are all planks.
While in Skagway, we took some time to play around with cheesey pictures (surprise surprise)
While in town, we took the opportunity to stop at the Red Onion Saloon and have a few Alaska Beers. The fun thing about the Red Onion Saloon is that it was a brothel at one time. The downstairs was a bar, and the upstairs was 10 brothel rooms that the men would frequent quite often.
Mady, being the big girl that she is now, felt the need to walk around town by herself. This only lasted a little while though...not because she got tired or anything, but because it took forever for her little legs to carry her any distance, and we were getting nowhere fast.
We also took the time to stop in at a replica bar. It was set up just like it was in the past during the gold rush, with old time bottle of alcohol and manequins and all.
Did you happen to notice the matching sweaters Mady and I had on today? I totally planned it that way..cheesey, i know, but i loved it :)
At dinner, our waiter made Mady her own little menu to order from...it was so cute!

She also enjoyed a special dessert of chocolate chocolate chip cookies, brought to her specially by our waiter. She really liked him, and he liked her too :)
By the end of the night, Mady was totally worn out
All in all, Skagway was a good day.
Stay tuned for more Stiffie adventures in Alaska tomorrow :)

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