Today was one of those days where I find it crazy that people don’t believe God created Earth. I didn’t really know much about Glacier Bay until today, but everything I saw and found out just amazes me. It’s such a wonderful Creation! I can hardly even begin to describe.
Of course, for us, today is barely more than just another day at sea. For passengers though, it is a day of scenic cruising. The outside decks and even the Lido pool have an ongoing commentary by a ranger on the ship about what’s around the ship, any animal sightings, names of glaciers we pass and random information. The outside decks were full of people, despite the cold weather. I, however, was stuck inside most of the morning. We did get to take the kids out and walk around for about half an hour instead of the usual sports deck time. It took my breath away the beauty of what was surrounding us. It was freezing out though, I had on the bright orange Club HAL uniform parka and most of the parents had actually read the schedule and dropped their kids off with their jackets, but some of the kids were not dressed warmly at all, so we had to cut our outside time short so they could get back inside where it was warm.
(pictures to come when I can finally get them to upload
During lunchtime, I spent the time outside on the deck with my camera, listening to the little bits of commentary they were still doing (not as constant, just every few minutes telling about the two major glaciers at the dead end where we were headed to turn around), and was still outside when we turned around at Marjorie glacier. Apparently, the ship usually stops moving and just drifts for a while while there, but there was so much ice in the water today, which meant we had to move slowly to get safely through, and we had to do the same going back out of the bay, we literally just turned the ship around and started making our way back out.
I managed to get a slice of pizza for lunch before running back up to work for the afternoon session. The ranger who’d been making announcements came to Club HAL and gave a speech to the kids as one of our activities, a nice break for us, especially since our kids were strangely well-behaved while he was talking. The afternoon went by pretty quickly, and Dianne and I got some food from the grill and sat watching us leave Glacier Bay before heading down to the room to rest before dinner and another session of work.
I had Un-Birthday party as my theme. It was a rather interesting night, odd in many many ways. First of all, there were no kids waiting for me before we actually opened. At 7:30, I only had two of my kids there, whereas usually I have all 10 that’ve been showing up. They finally all showed up a few minutes later, but snack hadn’t arrived by 8, so I had the kids decorate their party hats while Danielle called about the snack. While that was going on, one of the little ones had an accident in the bathroom, so I had to stand at the door (on this ship, the bathroom is outside the kids room) as she went on a search for the mom who we couldn’t seem to get a hold of. Snack finally arrived, and that situation was handled. It was 9 by the time I finished handing out snack, which left very little time for activities. I had to sit my kids down again to stress the importance of listening so we might be able to get through a few of the activities. No luck with that at all. When I tried to explain the next activity, they all started talking and guessing and telling me stories yet again. Finally, we played two rounds of musical chairs before moving on to their favorite: 4 corners (which is a great game as I can use it on any and every theme night, tonight I had a cake, party hat, balloon and present as the corners instead of plain numbers). They played that until all their parents came to pick them up.
Another exhausting day; Danielle, Dianne, Jenna (who’d come to help the teens eat their snack) and I sat in the Loft for about an hour before we finally got the energy to make our way downstairs.
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