Today was a busy day. We left Tok around 7:45 this morning. We made a stop at Rika's Roadhouse for a break. We got bear claws to eat and they were so good. They had a nice little gift shop but we didn't have time to look around. We then stopped at North Pole and Krista sat in Santa's lap. We also saw a couple of moose along the side of the road.
We had lunch at Gold Dredge No. 8. They served us stew family style. It was good but not much to eat. They gave us a tour of how the gold mine worked. We then went on to El Dorado Gold Mine. It is a gold mine still being used. We got to pan for gold. I got $20 worth of gold and Krista got $17 worth of gold. We made a quick stop by the Alaskan Pipeline and then we were off to our hotel.
The hotel is nice and free wifi in our room this time. We had a tour at 6:45 pm. We went to Chena Hot Springs Resort. They served us dinner -- prime rib and halibut. We then went to the ice museum. It is an ice house with all these ice carvings. It was freezing inside and we had to wear warm parkas. I had seen this on the discovery channel one time. They had hotel rooms that you could stay in there that were made out of ice. We got to see the rooms. Unfortunately they had to stop using them as rooms because the fire marshal came in and looked at them and said they needed a sprinkler system in case of fire! So that put an end to that.
We then went for a quick dip in the thermal hot springs pool. It got so hot we had to get out but it felt good on tired bodies while we were in there. There were some men swimming in there that I could have gone the rest of my life not having to look at those tiny swimsuits they had on their old wrinkled bodies. Yuk!
We saw a moose running and playing in the water on the side of the road on the way back to the hotel. We just got back to the hotel and it is 12:30 am and the sun is just starting to set. I am not sure what time sunrise is but I think it is around 3:00 am.
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