Stopping in Canada

The employees on the ship are amazing. The guy who cleans our room greets us by name (how does he do that?) and we stepped out breakfast and our room was cleaned in the short amount of time we were gone. Cute how he made a V with the blanket when he made our bed.

Our last port was Tuesday when we stooped in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada. We had to sign up to take a tender to shore. Each one holds 200 people comfortably, an employee told me, but in an emergency they could push that to 325.

We had time to explore the town and its shops, of course. E and D found us as we were exploring. We were in Cow Bay so there were cow designs everywhere, including this bench outside of one of the stores.

This picture shows how far put our ship was (not far) but zoom in on the picture and you can see seals sunbathing on those metal bars. We saw this on a short walk with E and D.

Our excursion was "Cow Bay Bites and Brews Walk." The tour guide was a college student who was born and raised in the town. He said he loves when the Virgin ship pulls in because it brings the party people ... and sunny weather which doesn't happen often.

Our first stop was Cowpuccino, a bakery and pot shop.

We were offered a delicious assortment of baked goods - no pot lol.

Our next stop was Dolly's, a seafood shop. By chance, Cindy and I were seated on a bench with the Cowbay Sites and Bites sign right behind us.

They served us clam chowder and cheddar biscuits. I'm not a seafood fan but the chowder was surprisingly tasty and you can't go wrong with a cheddar biscuit.

A local artist had several murals painted theought town. This was at an auto body/machine shop.

This was the entrance to the Sunken Garden in town.

Volunteers take care of all of these flowers. Our guide said it's a community gathering spot and has hosted some weddings.

We passed by two totem poles. He said once a totem pole is erected it's never touches so that's why the paint is faded. When the totem pole is done with its "life" it crumbles back to earth. I was surprised that tidbit wasn't mentioned in Ketchikan when we were learning all about totem poles. Perhaps different ribles habe different rules?

Here's our ship with a cool sculpture in front of it. This was in a park area where we gathered before our final stop - a brewery for a beer and pizza sampling.

Here it is - Wheelhouse Brewing Co.

They led us to an upstairs room and brought out three pizzas. They were all good. Funny, we found out later that E and D ended up at the brewery on their own for lunch. She said they waited a long time for their pizza, probably because the kitchen was getting ready for our geoup and cooking a lot of pizzas.

Cindy spotted this eagle in the bay after our tour as we walked toward more shops. Kind of weird to see one just hanging out.

The shops were cute. Cindy bought a "Wheels on the Bus" type book about hockey - "the pucks on the ice go bonk, bonk, bonk ..." Too cute. We didn't buy this hot sauce.

This was the back of a T-shirt. Tempting but I didn't want (or need) another T-shirt so I took a picture.

The only thing I bought was a box of maple sandwich cookies. One shop was handing out samples and these are individually wrapped so I thought it woild be nice to take one to mu co-workers when I'm back at the museum next week.