After grabbing a quick bite and dropping off my day pack, I shoved my digital camera into my too-small purse and headed into town for some shopping and to catch the Lumberjack Show. Shopping was fun. Of course, any outing that begins with a pint of Alaskan Amber ale at a local pub is off to a good start. 
Armed with coupons I received from a jewelry seminar on the ship, I headed into shops and claimed little trinkets. Most souvenirs are kitschy and overpriced, but I managed to pick up a few small items.The lumberjack show was a lot of fun. Helps to have handsome, burly men with senses of humor and great personalities entertaining you. They did all of the contests that you see on the ESPN rendition: logpole climb, log rolling, throwing an axe at a bullseye, etc.They taught us that the proper greeting when meeting a lumberjack is to swing your right arm in a good-natured fashion and say, with gusto: “Yo-HO!” Which means something entirely different when in certain unsavory parts of town – it’s all in the pronunciation and punctuation, I suppose.
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2 comments:
Yo-ho and a bottle of rum! The cutie in the 2nd pic is a keeper...can you bring him home?
No kidding! I took lots of him. Yummy.
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