Well another day, another glacier and another trip or two to the food trough. I have very little to report. We floated through glacier bay...again...and I heard about blue ice...again. Made me laugh! We saw a million whales, and otters, and seals. The glacier was calving tremendously.
I went upstairs first thing this morning and had my hair done. And this girl was amazing. My hair looks about the best it ever has (not saying much). On my way back to the room I heard a holler from across the whole middle deck swimming pool...”Hey Fannie!! Give us a line or two!” Man alive! I couldn’t believe it. I will never live that stupid show down. I think if I cut my hair off it might help, people only recognize me because of my ridiculous hair.
One other thing happened...I was down on a lower deck in the middle of the atrium in the middle of the ship. I was yet again getting a new key card. Mine demagnifies every three days or so. On my way back through the middle of the atrium, I heard a yell. And right before my eyes an old man was tumbling head over teakettle right down to the bottom of the stairs. He landed awkwardly at the bottom and we all just froze for about five seconds (and thats actually a long time) we all thought he was dead. In fact I had actually got to the “Damn, another helicopter delay!!” thought when he suddenly sprang to life, leapt to his feet and said “Thats the fastest I have moved in a long time!” He chuckled and hobbled away. Seriously! We all stood there, first in shock and then in total admiration. Wow!! If that had happened to me I probably would have popped open and gross spillage would have happened. What a guy!
At lunch today something annoying happened. Because its a day where no one gets off the ship, the buffet upstairs gets super busy. We didn’t have breakfast and it was getting on to 1 or 2 in the aft. We headed upstairs. One thing I will not do is get my food then look for a spot to eat. We find a spot first. It took several rounds of the whole eating area and we finally found a couple of seats at a table for six. Lovely table mates from Minnesota and Pittsburg. I went to get food first. About half way through the mob, holding an empty plate I headed down to where the soup is. Suddenly a man, also holding a plate gets loud and says, “we don’t like budgers around here!!” All of a sudden I realized he was talking to me! I took a quick look around and noticed a line had formed at the other end of the food area. I had no idea as I had come in from the other way.
He was getting quite loud and belligerent, much to his poor wife’s horror, when I finally had had enough. I leaned in and very quietly told him that it wasn’t against the ‘law’ to come in from the other way and line ups were for stupid people. I then shoved through and got my soup and bun and left the area. What is with these people? Everybody seems cranky.
And now we are back in our stateroom. Tomorrow is Skagway...our favourite town. But...if its raining, and I don’t think it will be, we are staying on the boat. If its not then we shall head into town and walk some of the back streets. TTYL
I'm never lining up again!
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