relaxing in Juneau

2 May 2014: Juneau
Juneau is a late arrival port on this run, so we had the normal morning programming. It was of course, a busy morning with the kids, they were running around wanting to play on the slide and climb on the paintbucket instead of the activities on the schedule. Danielle helped out a bit, she’s been going back and forth between the kids room and the tweens room, spending most of her time in the tween room, but she did come up with the idea of putting the slide to ‘sleep’ with a sheet over it to stop it being such a distraction. Things calmed down a little after that, at least the little helped me keep my sanity even if it didn’t really make that much difference. Anyway, we had a very quick lunch, and Dianne went upstairs to cover for Danielle’s port day since she, Teleya and I had to join the rest of the new crew and go through immigration. They told us to be in the crew mess at 12:15, and the ship wasn’t even docked until 1. At least most of us had our phones and had signal there.

Finally, we moved, but we didn’t make it far because the guests were crowded around, up and down the stairs around the gangway, the crew officers had to clear a path for us to get by to get out and to the office where we had to be. It was a really small office, so they only let in 5 of us at a time. We went through quickly though, and afterward, we decided just to stay off the ship for a bit. I went to the Viking with Jim and Dan (they’re two members of the Neptunes band, I know Jim from the Maasdam) and the three of us hung out there, got internet and talked for half an hour or so before they figured they’d head back so Dan could get all his online new-crew training done. I went back with them and met Dianne on the gangway, perfect timing since we had planned to get off together but hadn’t made our plans definite. She waited for me, while I ran to the room to grab my purse, then we and the acupuncturist Amanda went back to the Viking to hang out. It was fun, they have lots of pool tables and video games and stuff on the second floor where a lot of crew go to hang out, and we ended up playing Mario on the Nintendo for a good long time before Amanda had to head back to the ship and then Dianne and I decided we were hungry enough to find the pizza place we’d been told about. We found it and had a nice midafternoon dinner and basically just hung out there the rest of the afternoon. We got back to the ship and relaxed for about half an hour before I had to head back to work. Danielle had given Dianne the night off since she’d been covering a lot for us, with the meetings and immigration, and later the new-crew drill.

It was movie night, so rather relaxed. Though, with this group, it never really was that relaxed, they were constantly talking and asking questions, moving around and ‘singing along.’ I had to tell them that I’d never seen Frozen before in order to make them be somewhat quiet so I could know what was going on. It helped only slightly. But at least we made it through!

We supersan-ed quickly and I just went to bed since I was kind of exhausted from the last few days still.