Whitehorse, YT - Sunday, Day 4

On Sunday morning we went to church at the ONLY Lutheran Church in the Yukon Territory!!

There were about 25 people there;  their pastor had retired a few years ago and they were performing the service themselves.  (The retired pastor would come thru a couple of times a month and bless the sacraments for communion).  After the service we had coffee and cookies and met some very nice people.

We visited the Copperbelt Railway and Mining Museum.  Copper mining was big back in the early 1900's.  Their were several mines in this area but none are in operation today. 

We took a tour by train:

Our engineer was a great guy with alot of facts:

We visited the Yukon  Beringia Interpretive Center (takes you back more than 10,000 years to the last ice age):

and the Transportation Museum (which depicts Yukon transportation from snowshoes to moose skin boats to dog sleds and stage coaches, pioneer aircraft, railroad items, riverboats, and old military vehicles that helped build the Alaskan Highway:

An OLD Greyhound bus: 

Santa's sleigh, possibly??

This one was amazing - they have this DC-3 sitting on a pedestal at the airport and it is an actual weather vane.  The slightest breeze causes it to swing around to point into the wind.  This picture was taken just before we went into the Transportation Museum:

And this one was taken about 1 hour later:

You can also take bus/train tours from here to Skagway and Juneau, but we didn't opt for them since we had already visited them on our Alaskan cruise back in 1999.

On our way back to the CG, we took another back road and came across this view of the suspension bridge:

And this view is in the other direction where the river widens:

We got back to the CG, got ready for our journey the next day, and had a nice quiet evening.