May 2 - Jim And Sandy

May 2, 2105 Jim & Sandy

We got here on the 22^nd of April, expecting to start work on May 1. Well, things didn't quite work out that way. After 8 ½ days of driving, our boss let us off for about 3 days and we started work on the 27^th, anything from construction, demolition, clean up, polishing, scrubbing. We aren't used to this type of hard labor.

We got this weekend off after one day of training on Friday, May 1. We learned how to pan for gold, how a gold dredge works, and history of Skagway and the effect of the gold rush on Skagway. Monday, we get our costumes and the first boat arrives on Tuesday. Our job starts out being a dredge tour guide; then we work into guiding all the different jobs from gold panning, -40 degree room, entertainers, and of course, we will clean toilets, scrub, restock, etc. We've even been learning how to pan for gold and put it in a bezel.

                                      

Skagwayans will celebrate anything from the city clean-up, city rummage sale, to music on the sports field. We've been partaking in all the activities we can.

We wake up every morning looking up at Harding Glacier, and snow capped mountains. Temperatures are cool, sometimes, like today, it might get into the 60's, during the day and low 40s at night. Later this summer, it will get into the 70's during the day and 50s at night.