MUSH!

Skagway, Alaska

How the dogs are housed while they are at "camp". They all have mushers who love them and take care of them, and when the summer season is over they will go home. Our musher and his dogs came from Montana, right outside of Big Sky!
The one on the right is named "Vader". Pretty appropriate, wouldn't you say?

These puppies were 6-weeks old. I tried to convince D to put one into his pocket to sneak back on the boat... we were worried that it would freak out Rosalinda, our room attendant.These puppies were only 2 days old. Soooo cute!Actual Iditarod sleds.

Skagway was our next stop. We totally slept in, and missed getting excursion tickets on the boat, but luckily for us, there was a tour booth right off the boat (of course!). We decided to go dog-sledding. While in Alaska, do as Alaskans do!

It was really fun! Granted, there's not really much snow there right now, so you're really going dog-"waggoning", but it was still great! The dogs loved it so much! As soon as people would get close to their wagon, they would just start barking and get so excited. It was really neat! Then we got to go to "dog school" to learn all about being "mushers" and all about the dogs, and the Iditarod, and lots of other stuff. It was very cool! I think in my next life I might be a musher and race! There were TONS of dogs there, and they even had puppies that we got to play with.