Alaska 2011 (and Eureka): July 3, 2011

After coffee and a Rice Krispy bar for John we headed to Wal-Mart by taxi since we were under the mistaken impression that the buses do not run on Sunday. Live and learn, yet with the big amount of supplies it would have been doable, but a struggle on the bus. We got some groceries, unfortunately there were limited choices and they don’t have fresh fruit, veggies, meats, etc. so we made a trip to Safeway later on. Everyone here is pretty excited about the 4th of July, despite the rain the flags are flying, booths are set up, raffle tickets are being sold, etc. I bought a raffle ticket to win a nice skiff with a powerful motor. I don’t suppose I have to worry about how to get it home. Maybe if I win I need to move here! We walked to Safeway, a bit over 2 miles, via downtown and the crowds from 3 cruise ships. River Street was pretty busy. We will enjoy a walk there on Wednesday when supposedly there are fewer ships in port. It has been raining the whole day but not really cold. With a t-shirt and light weight long sleeve shirt under our light weight poncho we were plenty warm. We took the bus back from Safeway and we are well supplied now and will just buy a little bit at a time to meet our needs now. We had chicken, creamed spinach, and sliced tomatoes for dinner. Our lunch was splitting a foot long at Wal-Mart after shopping there. As a total for today, 4 cruise ships were in port, one Carnival, two Celebrity, and the Disney ship was just pulling into port around 11am when we were headed back from Wal-Mart. Disney was the last to leave as well, about 8pm. The others were gone by 5pm, not sure when they left.