Dancing in Alaska

We did another shore "excursion" yesterday in Skagway Alaska.

Skagway was a starting point for the gold mining in Alaska around the turn of the century.  And the town is now a Disneyworld-type place where the buildings have been built to look like they did 100 years ago, complete with wood sidewalks.

Shop after shop where you can buy lots of stuff made in China.  We skipped the town, like we skipped going into Juneau.  Neither town would be anything but a few small shacks without the huge ships moored close by that vomit tourists wanting to spend money there.

So instead of going into the towns we signed up for two hikes.  Yesterday's was described as being a short, two-mile hike.  We were expecting a nature walk, but actually it would qualify for a scramble instead of a hike. Almost straight up at several places utilizing a series of ropes.

It was fun.  Hard work, but fun.  And when we reached the top of the "hike," we had a nice view of Skagway and our ship:

Then we headed back to the ship and went dancing.  One of the surprises on this cruise is the amazing dance band that plays every evening in the lounge that NOBODY BUT US DANCES TO.  They are Jamaican, so their music is at the perfect beat for dancing.

Much of the time we have the floor to ourselves.  It's like our own private dance cruise.  We aren't objecting.

We got a video of us dancing,  trying to avoid a very small passenger who was running around at our feet.   Maybe he was dancing  with us!