Hello from a BEAUTIFUL day in sunny Ketchikan. The day was a little overcast at first then the blue sky started to appear and the late morning it was clear and sunny. Quite warm. A fantastic day for this town.

We did a wonderful tour – a great boat ride on a calm as glass river, with mountains all round, saw waterfalls, bald eagles, and sunshine on the forests. Pulled up crab pots and then back to the lodge for an all you can eat “crab feast”. It was truly delicious, steaming hot crab right out of the pot and so sweet and tasty. Ken, Sheila, Kathy and Peter were with us and we had a fantastic time. 13” of crab shells piled up in the middle of our table. Right outside the window from our dining table was a humming bird feeder and three tiny hummingbirds kept coming to feed. They were so cute.

Ken needs to post some pictures soon, just always seem to be so busy.

Ken has run back into town we need some new pooch cards, mine have been played with so much they are wearing out. Time for some new packs!!! We had a great game day yesterday, with the last game being such a hoot I don’t know why we bothered to play. I scored 12 points, it is hard to play that bad if you trying to get a low score, obviously I was totally focused.

Last night we had our cocktail party and hosted dinners. All went well with such great hosts as Captain John O’Neil, Franck Galzy, Florian Kibgilka and Doug Pinkerton how could it not be great. A dream team on this ship. The six names drawn for the free cruise were Ken and Sheila, Dave and Judy, Rosemary and Ed, Scott and Nikki, Ray and Pat, Rod and Cynthia. Great new private area in Stars for cocktail parties now.

Tonight dinner with Leslie, Brad, Ken and Sheila, got to digest all this crab so I can be ready for another meal