Alaska Cruise: Ketchican

(Journal entry)
Thursday June 6- Ketchikan
I have really been looking forward to today. When the ship pulled in to port we were nearly the first ones off the ship. The town was literally on the docks. It was much more populated than Skagway with a lot more to see right off the ship. From the beginning, Bj and I decided it would be out shopping port and we spent a pretty penny getting things for our kids and family. We only had about 4 hours in town so we had to be done pretty quick. Ketchikan was absolutely beautiful. It's one place that I would not mind seeing without giant ships clogging up the view. They had winding floral paths with custom wildlife themed benches. They had more unique vendors than any other place, and it was very convenient that it literally took 2 minutes to get to the first shop once we were off the ship. BJS favorite thing is its where he finally found his fishing hat! He looked for one at every port and had high hopes for this one and it didn't disappoint. Before we went to meet the family we laid out our wares, like kids on christmas morning, so everyone could see! Our last formal dinner with warren was fun and delicious. It was Lobster night. Bj was in heaven. Poor John was feeling too sick to eat, Bj helped him out by eating his lobster for him. He's so thoughtful. 😏 For dessert the dining staff turned off the lights in the restaurant for the "parade of baked Alaska" which was a couple dozen servers carrying prepared desserts topped with a bulb candle while the guests clapped and cheered. The lights went back on and everyone was served the traditional dessert. After a quick change we headed to the comedian, Darrell Joyce with Brooke and Paul (thinking everyone else was joining us, but they went to the "British Invasion" show first, then to the comedian...). He had new material but the funniest part was when he was talking about the newly-weds on the ship and how they were learning all sorts of things about eachother, especially their sleeping sounds and wanting to quiet the partner by means of smothering them with a pillow. That totally hit home. We laughed so hard! Next we went to the "British invasion" show that was a series of songs composed or sung by British composers. It was good. There are some talented people on the Princess staff. Ill bet the first show was more entertaining, because dad and mom knew a lot of the songs. Oh well, we just sat back and relaxed while we waited for the waiter to serve us our drinks. We paused for a bit in the piano bar to listen again to Tom. He had the audience shout out some songs and he wrote them on a list then arranged them in a medley. What skill!! We headed to our room and watched a bit of a movie before zonking.