Today is the Day! (Day 14)

Today is really the day!  It's a beautiful, sunny day and should be perfect for sight-seeing.  They're calling for some rain possibly Saturday and Sunday so I hope those whales are out enjoying the nice weather today too.  Who is that nut on tv that is predicting that the end of the world is tomorrow?  I'm assuming he's wrong because he said the world would end in the 1990's and we're still here.  I know the world has to end sometime but...  we've waited too long for this Alaskan trip for it to end tomorrow.  So hopefully my blog will continue on Monday and everyone will be reading it in

good health :-)

OMG....TODAY "WAS" SUPPOSE TO BE THE DAY!  As I am writing to you...our neighbor knocked on our door and said that he heard that our ferry was broken down...we thought he was kidding and we laughed.  It was not a joke!  Right now I feel the world "is" ending!  Here I thought the only sick feeling I would have would be from being sea-sick!  We're trying to find out what is going on right now to see what our plans will be for our trip to Alaska.  We may have to drive.  Oh..... I so wanted to see those whales :-( I'm sure we can take a boat somewhere out to see the whales, I guess....boo, hoo, hoo......... 

Bear with me....now I have to do some venting!  Here we drove 2600 miles specifically to take this boat and now it's broke!  The only info is on their site saying that it has engine problems and won't get the parts until possibly Monday.  Doesn't say how long it may take to fix it or if we should make other plans.  It sure would have been nice to get a phone call or an emails with some idea of what is going on and should we make other plans.  We are all packed and were ready to leave for the ferry in an hour.  We gave our neighbors our frozen food and tossed the rest of any perishable food because on the ferry we would have had to shut off the fridge.
Everything is up in the air right now and we're pretty disgusted!

UPDATE...Bill finally got through to someone and we can get on another ferry tomorrow; but the cabin they have for us is not on the outside deck and had "NO WINDOW!"  So in other words....they have put us in a closet!  There is no other choice so I guess we make the best of it, even though the very thought of it right now makes me cringe.  If you have any good suggestions for survival in closet living, let me know.    Bill looked on the internet to see the ferry we would be on.  The name of our new shop is the "Taku" and hold about half the number of people.  The "Columbia," that we were suppose to take, holds 950 people. I guess it will be fine as long as we don't have to share our bed with any strangers. :-)

Now....back to "GOOD THOUGHTS!"  

Good Thought: found out about the cancellation before we left the campground and drove to the port just to find out the bad news.

Good Thought:  they were able to get us on a ferry tomorrow, even though we will sleep in a closet.

Good Thought:  we still have canned food and snacks, even though everything that was healthy to eat was given away or thrown away.

Good Thought:  we can just stay in the same campground and don't have to go looking for another site.

Good Thought: it's still a beautiful day, despite some minor changes of the day.