YVRteacher

Let’s meet at 4:00 at Maltings on Monday. @NillaB and @ChiefK92 please come!!

It’s a beautiful walk! I definitely felt nervous when I did it by myself and actually turned back. It was a drizzly day and there weren’t any other humans on the trail that day. They say you don’t need to be faster than the bear, just faster than at least one other person but that doesn’t hold true when hiking solo!

Love Parnassus in Ketchikan! What did you teach? Thank you for the good wishes for travel and school. We go right up until the end of June.

My friend is on Celebrity this week and they were the first Celebrity ship to stop at Coco Cay.

In previous years Dinner with the Officers has always been on Skagway night. If I’m wrong I can just move the Post-It Note. I think I’m in my CGE (cake girl era) and am hoping for some of that delicious red velvet cake I enjoyed on the Breakaway. I like cake better than crepes. However, the chance of crepes showing up in this review are high. I don’t like any of the desserts in La Cucina so that might be crepe night. John Lawlor will be on the Breakaway when you are on board! I hope you get a chance to meet him and share some laughs. If you enjoy sushi, make sure to eat at Wasabi (but not on the last night when they are super busy.) I will definitely be doing a live review from the two Princess ships. I have unlimited wifi so won’t need to worry about internet minutes dwindling away.

For some reason I thought it was a “personal massager”

Today’s email exchange with dad This is what I sent last night This is reply #1 today This is the “I have come to my senses” reply which came after he ate breakfast (Dad is the one with an aol account, not me. You have no idea how hard I’ve tried to teach him Gmail. I had to set up a Gmail account that he doesn’t know about since his financial planning company can’t send emails to aol. Don’t tell him!)

A lovely walk is Yakutania Point in Skagway

I love that you posted in this thread! Huckleberry truffles are a must! They are at the Alaskan Fudge Company in Juneau. Check out their website for all the flavours!

Wait! Are you quitting your job for a life at sea? Are you going to be one of those people who has their own designated seat in the theatre and sits at the same spot by the pool every day, writing postcards to people saying “wish you were here” when really you have no desire for them to be there?

You can not leave me hanging like this!! Text me-I’m awake!!!!

@libtrek I have an idea! We could register my dad and your husband for adult Splash Academy. They could watch Grumpy Old Men and Benny Hill skits, eat soup and pudding, play 1950s records and have nap time. I just packed a stack of Post-It Notes so I can do errands and go get ice cream and my dad will know where I am and not forget and panic. I do realize the stuff that comes out of the ice cream machine isn’t real ice cream. I know this because I have to be careful with dairy and that stuff is just fine. Speaking of ice cream, the parents at my school got together and paid off the ice cream man to stop driving by every day at 3:04pm (school gets out at 3:03pm.)

That’s funny! I never go back and read my previous reviews. I booked that trip a few days before sailing and was onboard to spend time with a friend who is a bartender so I didn’t have much to say. The Encore is such a beautiful ship and Deepak is a top notch GM. Thank you for the birthday wishes! When is your next cruise?

My hopes for this trip 1. For my dad to have a great time and feel safe, secure and confident. I discovered during the spring break cruise how much I love unscheduled days but my dad takes immense pleasure from circling all the desired events in the Freestyle Daily. Along with this, he also loves finding and circling typos in the Freestyle Daily and leaving these for the room steward. I make sure he leaves the room first so I can garbage them before the room steward sees them. 2. Walk every day. When we did the full Panama Canal crossing on the Gem I made sure I walked 10000 steps before having a drink each day. That won’t be happening on this trip as I am having pineapple mimosas upon waking. 3. To avoid all possible encounters with all forms of Sweet Caroline. The blue-sequined jacket wearing impersonator from Howl at the Moon on the Breakaway broke my last Neil Diamond straw. 4. To inhale clean air in Icy Strait Point. They have excellent air which, unlike Free at Sea, is actually free. 5. Build a snowperson atop Mount Hoonah 6. Buy huckleberry truffles for myself, dad and @ceilidh1 Remember last year when I put my truffles in the fridge and my dad secured his in the safe? @ChiefMateJRK said dad is always right! 7. Cake. I would like some cake. I would also like a doughnut from Jellyfish. Did you know they opened a location in Juneau in addition to the one on Water Street in Ketchikan? This allows for a 4/14 chance of doughnuts in cruise ship math. It increases to 5/14 when we factor in the mini doughnuts in Icy Strait Point. 8. Maybe play some crib. My dad and I used to spend hours playing Scrabble throughout different seasons of life. From when I was a kid and he ruthlessly beat me (he is a world Scrabble champion) to playing on motor home road trips and cruise ship sea days, we played and played and played. He now says Scrabble hurts his brain so maybe he would enjoy a game of crib with a beer. We play crib at pubs especially when there are outdoor picnic tables. Too bad there isn’t a District Brew Pub on the Jewel but there are plenty of other places to get beer for dad and whiskey for me. 9. Sit at the bow in a deck chair on deck 13 and just watch the ocean. This would be better during a UV emitting time rather than an umbrella needing time. 10. Watch the docking and departing. I love this and don’t always put myself in a place to see it. Cheryl Strayed said there’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it. I feel this way about dockside procedures and I think @shadowmeboy does too. I like it when they throw ropes and miss! 11. Of course, I’d love to bask in the slow settings of the sun that turn the skies crimsons and ambers and violets. There’s hope in a sunset and promise in a sunrise but I don’t see many of those in a year because I like to sleep in. A lot. 12. Go to Asylum in Ketchikan and Klondike Brewing in Skagway. Looking at you, @theliterateleprechaun (my friend from grade 1 is going to be on another ship and we have two ports together!) 13. Maybe buy a waterproof jacket at the Tongass Trading Company in Ketchikan, upstairs where the real clothes are, not downstairs with the tourist crap. 14. Read. This is what I want most of all. I packed a bunch of Purdy’s chocolates for crew-members-become-friends and this took up book space so I am going to play book roulette and take my chances with the library onboard. This is risky! (This is also about as risky as I get: I’m a rule follower!)

Monday April 22 was Earth Day. If anyone wants a powerful and inspiring true story with gorgeous artwork, this is the anchor text I’ve been using with all my classes