Juneau

We're on our second day in Juneau and have had 2 very busy days. We hobknobbed with the hundreds who came off the 4 cruise ships on day one - WHAT A MOB SCENE!!! Imagine over 1000 (2000?) people hitting 2 street's worth of multiple 'harbor view' shops all at once... the shops all selling furs, jewelry, native crafts and more things that one doesn't need than you can possibly imagine. Tonight we watched a store owner assure a buyer that the 7' 'stick' she was buying would definitely get shipped safely. We couldn't imagine her concern until we asked what was so valuable about that stick. It was a narwhal "horn"!!!!!! Very rare and just what the owner wanted to sell - $15,000 or more!!!

We also visited the Mendenhall Glacier just outside the city, walked some lovely trails, missed seeing the bear (yay!), but got great views of the porcupine!