One day closer to retirement

is my new mantra. Really thought I would have been out of there a year ago, but such is the life in the fast lane. I guess it really is all in the timing and with lots of prayer we'll be looking back at it all soon.



Day 3, Saturday May 17 Surprising thing about our boat, (yeah I know, its a ship) but there is no clock in the stateroom. Actually there are very few clocks on board at all. A couple in the main stairwells by, but not by the elevators where you can see them ~ who uses stairs??? And one and only one on the Lido Deck by the pool. So got up and found the boat channel on tv which had the time, travel distance/time to and from the current ports, and the our point on the map (lol, i can not think of what is is called) you know, longitude and lattitude. And of course, none of us had a watch. We never knew what time it was, and quite frankly really never knew where (on the boat) we were. Quite disorientated. I'd go out on one deck and the sun was there and around to the otherside where there was no sun and I would swear the water was going in the opposite direction. No wonder the Ancient Mariner had issues, but I think they were more than just water related. He was old, probably blind, and didn't have a watch. To top it off, get this, on the last day of the cruise what do you suppose happened????? Yes! They had a watch sale!!!! $75 watches ~ 2/4 $25. Can you believe it. And NO, we did not buy one.


We awoke as we had slept~upside down in our bed. When we went to bed, the room was so dark, the bed just didn't feel right. With the rolling of the ship and being so disorientated I convinced Wayne to sleep upside down with me. Got a good nights sleep though. After the first night we slept normal. So we get up and get dressed. Boots, ski socks, long johns, undies, jacket, hat, gloves and out the room we head. 6:30 am. LOL we were ready for Juneau ~ our first stop. We toured the boat, made our way through breakfast and finally caught up with the kids. Around 10:30 am, we are just about out of things to do before getting in to port. This ship-guy comes walking by and I asked, "hey, what time will we be docking in Juneau?" He looks each one of us and quite matter-of-factly states, "Why tomorrow morning about this time." We all had to pick our jaws up off the floor. Somewhere in all the goin's on, we missed the fact that the first day out was a "at sea day". No wonder the little chart on the boat channel looked like would have to be doing some fast sailing to make Juneau which appeared to be still 2x as far as what we had traveled through the night. Off we all went.....a perfect time for a nap.


Decked out for Juneau ~ 24 hours early. Don't we look good.





















The Room Animals ~ each day when we returned to our rooms we had little room animal that the cabin steward made for us. This one was the first one we got. A Turkey. I wonder if there is any signifigance in that. It was cool though, every time we left the room we would hear him say, "Good Morning, Mrs. Perman." or "Good Evening, Mr Perman, how is your day?"