Each day keeps getting better! Woke up at 6 a.m. and opened my eyes to look out our balcony door at Ketchikan's mountains and a gorgeous blue sky. That view, combined with the cool Alaska morning air (we slept with the door cracked open) made a wakeup experience I will likely think about (with envy) every remaining Monday morning of my life. We grabbed a quick breakfast before leaving the boat...

10:56 Vancouver Time / 9:56 Alaska Time It's almost Ketchikan (AK) time. We had a relaxing but full day at sea today. But first I'll recap the rest of last night. We got to the show about 25 minutes before it started. Got good seats in the surprisingly large theater. The show was decent once it started. My eyelids were verrrry heavy leading up to it, though! First the ship's entertainers sang...

...us to resist, and we agreed to get my mom to register us the following day. If anyone else wanted to speak asshole to us, we'd just bitchslap them. Or ignore them. Or something. Our boat docked in Ketchikan at 2AM or so, and we were still up from all that mid-day sleeping we'd been doing. Day Three: Everyone was off in Ketchikan at the UNGODLY hour of 10 in the morning, but before my mom left...

...a 3 day break from work which has been nice but I feel like I need to be there at Best Western helping those old hags clean those 100+ rooms. I always thought our hotel had more rooms but just like Ketchikan it's tiny tiny tiny! I'm not even supposed to be working there but I need a job and they are beyond desperate. Regardless, I love it there. I see people leave the craziest shit out in the open...

...the liking of a group of teenagers. They considered me the chill, relaxed, and mature one in the group who just sits and give slight giggles and small comments. Anyway the stop after that was in Ketchikan, Alaska. It was frigid cold and raining cats and dogs. There I saw a totem pole museum and the various ports that house the ships. It really didn't interest me that much. The next stop was in...

    In the Beginning . . .     The Ketchikan of the 1960s: This is the north end as it looked about the time I left in 1968. The airport is on a separate island in the foreground. I lived in a neighborhood up the hill near the center of this photo on the main island (foreground: Gravina Island, beyond is Revilla Island). Anyone who has ever developed...

Not too much to report today. I finished "Rise of Endymion" this morning, so hopefully my DS can keep me occupied tomorrow, which will be a full day at sea. We're in harbor at Ketchikan - but the ship didn't get there until 2:00 this afternoon. The weather has turned incredibly better - it's in the mid 60s, windy, but completely clear. Which is surprising, since Ketchikan is one of the rainiest towns...