Sunny in Juneau?

As I mentioned in the last post, I spent this past week in Juneau.  I spent most of my time there doing some super un-fun work. One of my tasks was to help purge old files that we had in the office in order to prepare the Juneau office to move into another building, and we had about 40 years of files that needed to be archived or purged, but of course it required a human to literally look at every single piece of paper before a decision could be made about it.  It wasn't the most exciting way to spend a week, but I did get to throw a lot of stuff away and that felt pretty good.

For the first two days, it looked like this in Juneau:

That would be about 37 and snowing.  It did this for two whole days.

 By Wednesday night, it started to get nicer, and the mountains even peeked out.  Juneau is SUCH a cute town.  I would live there except it is like living in a deserted island most of the year and the weather is generally pretty miserable.  Honestly, I should be their director of tourism.

Note there's nobody around.  The cruise ships don't start coming up until about May I think, so the stores either don't bother to open or they are open from about 10-5.  I think I took this picture around 6pm.  It's amazing how much different it was from the last time I visited when everything was open until 11 pm or later and was full of tourists buying as much crap as they could lay their hands on.  I think I like sleepy Juneau better.

Since the cruise ships aren't around, they let you walk on the dock.  I tried taking a panorama of the harbor.  It's pretty when it's not rain/snowing in your face!

On the dock I found this little statue of a dog.  I asked my coworker David about it and he had no idea what it was for even though he lived in Juneau for eight years.  Honestly, it's the ONLY statue in town...he's a terrible tour guide.

On Thursday morning, this is what I woke up to.  Just Amazing.

The rest of my trip, town pretty much looked like this.  I just can't get over how nice it was.  It made it hard to go back to work after I took a walk at lunch time every day.

Here's my little office in Juneau! I spent 4.5 days sitting in the yellow and orange building in the room right above the flagpole making piles of things to shred.  At least we had a nice view.

On Thursday afternoon David drove me out to the Mendenhall Glacier to look around because I told him I wanted to see some of the sights since the weather was so nice.  I wanted to hike out to it but David wouldn't let me because I'm pregnant.  Apparently pregnant women aren't supposed to walk.

What a place!! I'm glad I finally got to see it sunny in Juneau.  Honestly if you ever get the chance, you should visit, just try to plan your trip for one of the 10 sunny days per year they have in Juneau.