July 11, 2017

Mostly a chore day today, and not a good puppy day. We did laundry in the morning and then came back to the boat for a coffee and a short time with the pooper. Then back out again and had lunch at the hotel right above the harbor. They have a decent restaurant. Then a walk down to the "Bishops House".

This is now owned by the Forest Service and they had 2 rangers there. There was a downstairs that you could walk around on your own, and then they conducted tours of the upstairs. It has been completely restored to make it safe to go in, and has been furnished just as it was when the first Bishop from the Russian Orthodox Church was there. It is still "consecrated", but there are only a couple events a year done there.

Walking back towards town, we picked up a Christmas Tree Ornament from the Russian Christmas Store of course. Then to the grocery store to provision. We didn't need much because it really hasn't been that long since we provisioned last, just a few more new fruits and vegetables. Back to the boat to try and appease the puppy a bit. Raining harder so we needed to dry our pants a bit too.

We had been recommended a nice restaurant by John and Judy called Ludwig's. Greg made reservations for dinner tonight as soon as we arrived in Sitka. We knew we might be leaving on my actual birthday so we decided to have birthday dinner the night before. It's a very small quaint restaurant and only seats about 20 people. But the food is amazing! Uses local seafood and has a Spanish / Italian bent. Quite high end with an amazing ambiance. We ended up with several appetizers for dinner and a lovely chocolate torte with raspberry sauce and sea salt for birthday cake. Yum.

Back to the boat for some puppy attention before watching a movie and going to bed.