Sharp's Travels

We were up and ready to leave for uptown by 8am. It was raining so we took an umbrella and made our way up there. A little rain doesn’t stop you when you are on a mission. There was one particular store that was giving a 20 % discount between 7:30am and 9:30am. We got some good deals in there. When they checked us out they gave us a 20% coupon for a jewelry store called Money Maker. They fashion jewelry out of money. They make it all right there in the store. I bought earrings and a necklace and they are making me a bracelet to match and we will go tomorrow to pick it up.

We went out the back door of the Match Maker and into a little courtyard. Over in the corner we spotted a glass jewelry store. They had some beautiful stuff. I bought another necklace and earrings.

At 10am it was time for the 4th of July parade. The kiddy parade was first, followed by the regular parade. They had bag pipes players, mounted police, fire trucks, saloon girls from the shows in town and bands. Spike was also in the parade dressed again as Frank Reid. He had a shoot out with the con-artist of Skagway, Soapy Smith. Gay got a lot of nice pictures of all of this.

Right after the parade they had the egg toss. We signed up for that. Skagway is trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the most people participating in an egg toss. There were over 900 of us. We won’t know if we made it for about 3 months. It takes them that long to tally it all up. There was a helicopter filming it all.

They also had a picnic basket & dessert auction, foot races, tug-of-war, arm wrestling, slow bike race, horseshoe tournament, spike driving contest and the Ducky Derby, lots of fun things going on.

We made our way back to the 5th wheel for lunch. Afterwards Gay decided to wash the truck. It needed a bath after traveling the dusty roads.

About 3pm we got a call from the Money Maker jewelry store letting us know my bracelet was ready. We walked up to pick it up. It is real pretty. Gay got a few more pictures of the town. We stopped and watched the spike driving contest. They had rail road ties laid down in the street with train tracks laid on them. Each contestant had to drive in 5 spikes and the one who did it in the shortest amount of time was the winner.

We decided to try the pizza joint for supper. It was nice to have some good pizza for a change.

At 5:30 we went to watch the Ducky Derby. Number 104 won. Who ever held that ticket won $1000? They also drew 5 ducks at random and they each won $100 each. It was something to see all the little ducks floating down the river.

Even though it rained this morning everyone made the best of it and had a great day.

Gay has uploaded pictures of the day. See album: Skagway 7/4/08