Day 5 - The sun doesn't set, it just gets dark

We are now in Juneau. It was so sad to leave Sitka. I am going to miss it FOREVER.

We took a four-hour ferry ride from Sitka on the Alaska Marine Highway. We took the "fast" ferry. It is new. It was very nice. Everyone in Alaska is impressed by it but they still prefer the pace of the "slow" ferry. We arrived at the ferry at 12:30p even though it wasn't scheduled to depart until 1:30p. "Alaska time" is very curious. It could be earlier than scheduled or posted, it could be later, and it might not even happen. You have to be very patient if you live here. Lucky for us the ferry left close to schedule.

Juneau is very different from Sitka. It feels like a miners' town setup after the gold rush (that's actually how they stole the honor of being the state capital from Sitka).

Tomorrow is a big day. In the morning we are going to take a helicopter to Mendinhall Glacier and go dog mushing with an Iditarod team. I'm hoping we'll be able to do some laundry in the evening just to balance out the excitement.