Beautiful weather today!! It started off foggy but burnt off in time for us to see the most magnificent snowy mountains. This place up here is truly amazing and in your face beautiful. Right now it is five o’clock in the afternoon and we are due to enter another glacier area.
I woke up with tourista this morning but it seems to have burned off with the fog..thank goodness. As such though I didn’t go up to eat anything...just not hungry.
We were given the most complicated set of instructions, along with various baggage tags for disembarkation. Seriously, I have read and re read it all and still am not sure what to do. I even watched the video on tv. And this is ironic because all along the way we have been made to watch videos, very very patronizing videos I might add, on how to wash our hands, how to hold hand rails, how to line up courteously, and, worst of all, how to f*****g glacier watch. Five rules for that one with the last one being “and please do not spoil this experience for your fellow traveller.” Okay. How? How the hell do you “spoil the experience” for someone else...photobomb a glacier shot? There are explicit rules laid out on how to enjoy your personal deck...don’t leave doors open (a/c concerns), don’t lean over edge, don’t throw burning material over, don’t throw garbage over....its like putting “open other end” on the bottom of a coke bottle.
Then...they hand out all these instructions on how to disembark with appropriate tags to get our luggage where its supposed to go. One thing I understood, we have a specific time to meet in a specific place, according to the colour of one of the tags. Ours is in The Wheelhouse at 9:30. We are NOT to go there before our allotted time. And...we HAVE to vacate our stateroom by 8 a.m. Okay...where the hell do we go? Every club and dining room and theatre is being used for disembarking groups. So we have 1 1/2 hours to kill, lots of time to figure out how to cause trouble!
I had my hair done today!!! It feels so good. I always get this thing call a frangipani oil treatment and head massage then a teeny tiny hair cut. The last time I had this done I was with a young hairdresser and we got talking about how much we despise Taylor Swift and we got carried away and waaaay too much hair ended up on the floor. So I kept a watch this time and my hair came as good as it ever could. Its shiny too, not something that my hair is vey often.
Now its time to get Bill packing. I finished mine this morning and now I have to figure out the tags and get them out into the hall. I shall come back before posting and report on the latest glaciers.
Well, they were utterly amazing. And the big one Harvard Glacier was calving. The whole thing sounded like gunshots and thunder. It felt like the glacier was talking to us and now and then she would drop ice off just to make us happy. Unbelievable. Now we are back in our room, have had a delicious supper and we are off to bed. TTYL
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