Aug. 10: Caught another bus, and off to Mendenhall Glacier, was a little disappointed with this glacier after what we saw yesterday, although it had two waterfalls, one along side of the glacier and one farther to the right. It was raining and we didn't wear our raincoats so we didn't walk to the waterfalls or got too close to the glacier. We did walk to see the bear across the road, after it quite raining. There was like a boardwalk along a stream and the bears come out and catch fish and eat them, we did see one black bear. After returning to hotel, we had walked down through Juneau and watched people and looked at the cruise ships.
Aug. 11: We caught another ferry at 8:15am, heading to Sitka, Alaska, we had arrived at 12:45pm. We had buses pick us up at the ferry terminal and took us to our hotel, we are in two different hotels, they couldn't accommodate us all in one hotel. We have had some people sick with vomitting and diarrhea, two went to the hospital, they only kept one, the other they sent back to hotel, they say they came down with a cruise ship virus. The guy the kept, was released the next afternoon, after getting an IV, we also had a lady fall on the sidewalk and broke her arm and dislocated her wrist, they checked her out and told her they couldn't do much there, so she flew home to Texas, she is to be getting surgery on Thurs. Aug.19, her husband has decided to continue on the caravan. We had walked through town, which is nicer that Juneau, not as full with people from cruise ships