The Toms are in Town!

     The past few days have been exciting because Kev's father and brother, Tom Senior and Tom Junior, have come up for a visit. They arrived on Tuesday, on Tom Senior's birthday and we cooked dinner at our apartment because Kev only has two plates and two chairs at his. The Toms have been having a grand time in Ketchikan so far, and have gone on a Duck Tour AND seen the Lumberjack Show thanks to the great connections they have here. Yesterday, they took Kev, Matt and I out to dinner at the Cape Fox Lodge which is the nicest hotel and restaurant in town. What makes it extra cool is that to get up to the Lodge, you take the funicular and get a great view of the city.

The Funicular

I have no idea how the lodge manages to stay in business with such a low percentage of tourists staying overnight here, but it's a beautiful facility with a restaurant that actually serves vegetarian food (most of the restaurants around the city have seafood-based menus, shockingly enough). I actually tried crab dip for the first time and loved it, although I suspect this is mostly to do with the fact that it was mixed with a ton of cheese. Still, baby steps.

Swank City! Clearly I took this right off the webpage because I forgot my camera and didn't like the crappy phone pictures I ended up with.

Crappy phone picture of Tom and Kev at Cape Fox

Less crappy phone picture of the town at "night"- the sun doesn't set until 11 these days!

           We walked around after dinner and ended up shooting pool at the Asylum and staying up waaaaay past our bedtimes, which was fine because all three of us had the day off today. This morning, the Oriordans took a float plane tour of the town, something that Matt and I will hopefully be doing very soon through our work connections- apparently it's an awesome tour. To find out what Matt and I did on our day off today, you'll have to wait until tomorrow, when I get around to uploading the photos. Hint: they're pretty great photos. It's back to work for all three of us tomorrow but we'll have plenty of times in the evenings to hang out with the Oriordans, who will be in town until Tuesday. Lucky for Matt and I we'll have Monday off as well so our next vacation day is right around the corner.


More soon!

Bridget