getting settled and maybe into a rhythm

July 9, 2014
Juneau day was pretty fun. I was asked at the OB the night before if I could be the bear for the photo department, and I agreed. So, after the morning shift of work, I grabbed a quick lunch, ran to my room to change into comfortable clothes, and met up with Jessica (the photographer) and got into the costume. It was giant on me, which was kind of entertaining because I looked like a baby bear that had just gotten out of hibernation so hadn’t eaten in ages, so skin was too big. I did help get a lot of pictures, despite the scary face of the bear costume. 3 hours of work and I get paid for it!

We got back on the tender once open tender happened, and I changed, met up with Jordan and Christine and the three of us went out together, to get crepes and then to the Viking. Movie night was kind of crazy. We were supposed to be watching Mr. Peabody and Sherman in the Screening Room, but the projector in the screening room was broken, so we had to stay in Club HAL and hope that we could get the movie from Broadcast. We finally did, and the movie was a lot shorter than we’d anticipated, so we added an extra half hour of free time at the end of the night.

I had a raft drill in the morning, which seemed to take forever, but it finally ended leaving me with about 30 minutes to relax before I had to work Port Day. It was a long port day, I got most of the kids settled in to watch a movie, but one of them just wanted to play board games with me, and only with me. At least it wasn’t too stressful, just very long. I went out and got some ice cream and finally got my pack of Dr. Pepper that I’ve somehow not bought yet.

It was beautiful weather in Glacier Bay today! I actually ended up taking off my jacket, it was that nice out, a bit chilly but the sun was out! I just wanted to stay outside the rest of the day! We had a busy busy day full of kids, we had over 30 tweens signed in at once. We were busy right at start with the Park Ranger, then a quick game, then we had to go downstairs for Kids in the Kitchen, which took a really long time since we had about 50 kids and tweens in attendance, and I had to do a lot of translating with my three French girls so they understood what was going on. I’m glad they weren’t there for the Park Ranger at least, she was talking rather fast and using quite a few words I didn’t know in French. At least the Huna lady this morning spoke somewhat slowly and had a lot of props to show and pass around amongst the kids. It’s nice being able to use my French again! :)