#sourtoe

Manchester man says drinking a cocktail with his own toe in it was "just like having a black ice cube in there, really....."

Sourtoe shots in some Yukon Jack

and the nightlife in Dawson was amazing! I went with Tanja and Philipp to Diamand Tooth Gerties, the old gambling hall of Dawson City. We had some relativly cheap dinner and of coarse went to one of the gambling tabels, before we saw one of the Cancan Shows which we got told about from the guides at the tour in the morning. And yes, like it was yesterday the show was exactly like you always see it in the western movies. We were pretty early and so we had a place in the front and at the end of the shows the ladies choose some guys to dance with them. And one of them thought it would be a good idea to pick me and well, I ended up on the stage trying to dance. So now I defenitly feel like I was in the Wild West! :D

After that we went to another bar and drank the Sourtoe Cocktail, a drink with a human toe in it! Luckily I didn´t had to drink the toe, but it had to touch my lips if I wanted to become a member of the Sourtoe Club. The toe was pretty black already so I didn´t seem that real, so I drank the drink fast, without thinking too much about. But Philipp when Philipp, who drank after me, finished his glass, the women who watched everyting  squeezed out the toe and he had to drink what came out of hit to fullfill the task, at this moment I was pretty happy I had everyting done already...

Afterwards we went to another bar and had a normal beer, so without any specials. But it was pretty interesting to talk with Philipp a bit about beer, cause he is brewer back in Germany and on their tour they are also visiting a bunch of brewerys so he can compare. 

As part of my job as a flight attendant for Air North, I got to fly to Fairbanks and Dawson City and spend Friday night in Dawson City. It's a tough job, I know. I had the opportunity to get some neat photographs during the ferry flights between Whitehorse, Fairbanks and Dawson City. (Ferry flights are flights with no passengers)

 One of the pilots, Daniel, was kind enough to give me a lovely but slightly inaccurate tour of Dawson, having only been there a couple of times before himself. Here are some of the photos from our wandering.

After touring the town we met up with some more Air North crew for dinner at El Dorado, then we checked out the sourtoe phenomenon at the Downtown Hotel. If you haven't heard of the sourtoe, it's a Dawson City tradition where you have a shot with a toe in it. Not a fake plastic toe, or toe-looking olive, an actual severed human toe. For $5 you get to take the shot with the toe in it and you have to let the toe touch your lips to get the sourtoe certificate. My brother did this years ago when he came to Dawson for work and delighted in grossing people out with the pictures.