JULY 20TH, DAWSON CITY, YUKON TERRITORY

So nice to have a lazy morning to get caught up on e-mails and blog. I have not been as good this trip on printing pictures. Hopefully, in the morning I can start doing a few at a time. That will actually be a good thing to do in Chicken, although the staff has some activities planned , but more on that later.

A large group of the caravan went to see the historic gold mine dredge #4 around 12:30. It is suppose to be the largest in North America. When they said we had to climb 150 steps, several of the ladies including yours truly declined. Denny went with some others. I decided to take Rudy in his stroller for a trip to town. Town starts 2 blocks from our RV. He loved his ride and had his picture made by 4 different people-one guy was from Australia. I met up with Bev walking around, which was a good thing. All of the stores welcomed Rudy inside but they were 3-5 steps up from the sidewalk, so it was a little difficult. But "Aunt Bev" came along and up we went. It is a neat town that looks like little country towns back in the 20's or 30's must have looked. They don't do a lot of maintenance around here due probably to having little access to supplies and also the cost. However, the hardware store covers half a block and has just about everything. Bev bought couple pair of earrings but I decided to wait for Denny to shop with me tomorrow.

Back at the RV, Rudy passed out. He was exhausted from his day of being a celebrity.

I again did a few e-mails to the kids, and some of our friends, took Rudy for another walk and was just literally laid back. It felt so good. Denny returned about 3:30 and was very impressed with the size of the dredge. He prefers his metal detector :-)

We ate dinner in our rig and took Rudy for a walk. On the way, we stopped to talk to a couple of friends and before we knew it, our circle had about 20-30 people in it. An impromptu social hour (with all the dogs playing with each other and getting treats from everyone)that lasted until we all loaded up at 11pm to ride up to Midnight Dome. It was a nice time as these type of gatherings usually are.

We rode with Joe and Alice and Jon and Lynn. The ride up was very curvy and a little scary but when we reached the top-beautiful. We were looking down on the city (which looks much bigger from the Mt.) and saw where the Klondike merges with the Yukon rivers. We also got a glimpse of part of the Top of the World Highway. We all took our chairs to watch the sun go down, which was a few minutes before mid-night. However, it was still very much daylight even after the sun went behind the mts. It doesn't really get dark until around 1AM then comes back up in a few hrs. We laughed and said we could turn our chairs around and watch it come up. Dave and Saul were celebrating birthdays, so the staff had chocolate cupcakes and milk for everyone. Even though everyone was grumbling good-naturedly about staying up so late. I don't think anyone would have wanted to miss it.

Back at the RV, Rudy was waiting up for us and when we came in, pulled the curtains and went to bed, he passed out! Thank goodness, we were afraid he would be ready to play. We have another late morning so we can all sleep in. Good night!