We woke this morning for our last day in Sitka. For our last day, we decided to hit some of our favorite haunts: North Sister for a crepe breakfast and poking through the tide pools. Dagny and Maggie even checked out a beach combing bag from the park rangers. The bag contained a pail, a shovel, a magnifying glass, a net, and some information to help identify sea creatures. We hung out for approximately as long as it takes to enjoy a Padron 7000.
We saw over the last few days the carnival move into town so we headed there for a few rides and corndogs and funnel cakes for lunch. The entire carnival consisted of maybe 8 or 9 rides, a few midway games, and a food kiosk. Not exactly big time, but fun nonetheless.
Needing to fill up the rental with gas, we headed back into town to find the had station. Along the way we stopped at a black sand beach to poke around and we ended up with the family building an earthen dam, diverting runoff water into it trying to fill it faster than water seeped out. We did not get it to fill completely, but we did get quite a deluge when Alastair breached the dam before we left.
Heading back to the airport for our flight, we stopped for some coffee and a few hands of Palace, a game Adelaide learned on her church mission trip and has now taught us all. Getting back to the airport we checked in to our flight and had dinner at the Nugget, followed by a few hands of Palace and Blackjack. Learning that our flight had been delayed, we did the only rational thing and ate pie, continuing to play cards until our flight was cancelled altogether. We are now tucked snugly into or airline-provided hotel rooms, ready to try again tomorrow to move on.
- Dave
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