We woke up this morning to hear a light sprinkle of rain on the truck and panicked.  We packed up our slightly drier chairs and tarp and then made breakfast.  The clouds are kind of spotty, it doesn't look like too much rain, just a little overcast.  

We drove down to an overlook for the Five Fingers Rapids.  This is a portion of the Yukon River where several large standing rocks in the river, separating the river into five smaller channels.  This was a very treacherous portion of the river when this was a major transportation route.  Paddleboats called stern wheelers, carried gold and silver ore out of the Yukon and carried liquor, food and passengers into the remote areas of Yukon.  Today, fifty years later, its' a beautiful portion of the river with a wooden viewing platform and stairs taking visitors to the river's edge.

We also stopped at the Montague House, the ruins of a historic roadhouse.  We chatted for a minute with Doug and Norma from Alberta, Canada.  A tour bus arrived and the next thing we knew, we had 75 people stumbling around these ruins with us.  Time to go.

We stopped in Carmacks, YT for gas.  We've been paying about $4.00 per gallon here in Canada.  We complained about paying over $3.00 per gallon in California, but we'd be so excited to see prices in the three dollar range again.  

We finally arrived in Whitehorse, YT, the capitol of the Yukon.  This is by far the largest city we've been thru in days.  It even has fast food restaurants and a Wal-Mart.  We stopped by the Visitor's Center and go info on hotels, hostels and B&B's.  It's raining again and we're looking for a place that's warm and dry.  We called several places and found A Scandia House B&B, run by a wonderful Danish lady Lene Neilson (pronounced LEE-na).  She has a couple of rooms in her basement she rents.  We would share a bath with the other room, but it was not rented so far, so we might have it all to ourselves.  We checked in quickly and headed back into town

We went to the 4:30 brewery tour at Yukon Brewing Co. (Ummmm, beer!)  The tour had already started when we got there, so we had to catch up on tasting.  They had some pretty tasty beers.  We tried two or three and went out to the brewery.  They have a very small operation and only distribute to the Yukon Territory and a little in British Columbia and Alberta.  We finished up by tasting three or four more beers.  It was good, but we decided not to take any with us (and it was $11.00 per six pack).  

We went back to the B&B and showered and cleaned up a bit.  We went back into town for the "Frantic Follies" show at 8:30.  The Yukon was a famous gold rush area in the late 1800's and early 1900's.  Gold miners would come into town hungry for entertainment.  Vaudeville type shows with pretty girls singing and dancing a high-kicking Can-Can was the order of the day.  The "Frantic Follies" was once in Dawson City (we saw a similar show advertised there), but they moved to the larger town of Whitehorse.  It plays every night and twice a day during peak season.  They had quite a crowd tonight.  Many tour groups will book this as part of their tour package.  It was a lot of fun with some really corny jokes and decent music and humor.