Over the course of the trip, we lost several items. Amazingly, all were found in due time. The list includes, but is not limited to:
- a case of 3rd octave chimes that arrived three flights after the designated carrier
- Rich's wallet
- P.L.'s prescription medicine
- Rebekah's wallet
- Chris
- Chris' wallet
- Liesl's book and socks
And the final item, Liesl's sunglasses (not much need for THOSE!), was found yesterday at her first home stay. All is good!
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Bye bye, Alaska. Hello, Seattle.
Well, we are all back in Seattle (or Cali, for P.L. and Rebekah) now, I think. I hope! The last crew landed at SeaTac about 2 hours ago. It took Alaska over an hour to deliver our luggage to the carousel - they said there was a malfunction on the conveyor belt, and we fear it was the 2 foot x 4 foot case of upper 5th, 6th and 7th octave bells that caused problems. FINALLY everything arrived and Patrice, Bryant, Liesl, Elliot and I headed home. It was sad to say good bye to everyone.
Everyone except us 5 had left or were in the process of leaving by this morning. We had some extra time so headed to Skagway from Haines this morning on the 8 AM ferry. We had about an hour or so to kill in Skagway before catching our fast ferry to Juneau (it sounds nuts, but this was really a logical plan based on the ferry schedule). We broke into smaller groups since someone had to stay behind a watch the luggage; we each got about a half hour in Skagway and with 4 cruise ships at dock, that was more than enough for me. The ferry left at 11 AM and we played a rousing game of Nerts which lasted over an hour, no one maintained a score over 30 and Bryant hit an all-time high (low?) of -109. After a quick lunch of snacks from the snack bar, we started a new round and folks fared a bit better. We arrived in Juneau at 1:45 PM and were picked up by Wendy's folks to head to the zipline excursion that had been arranged by Wendy's mom. We had to catch the boat by 2:30 and made it with literally a minute to spare.
OK - I really want to tell the tale of ziplining but my eyes keep shutting while my fingers wait on the keys. More to come later - I promise!
Everyone except us 5 had left or were in the process of leaving by this morning. We had some extra time so headed to Skagway from Haines this morning on the 8 AM ferry. We had about an hour or so to kill in Skagway before catching our fast ferry to Juneau (it sounds nuts, but this was really a logical plan based on the ferry schedule). We broke into smaller groups since someone had to stay behind a watch the luggage; we each got about a half hour in Skagway and with 4 cruise ships at dock, that was more than enough for me. The ferry left at 11 AM and we played a rousing game of Nerts which lasted over an hour, no one maintained a score over 30 and Bryant hit an all-time high (low?) of -109. After a quick lunch of snacks from the snack bar, we started a new round and folks fared a bit better. We arrived in Juneau at 1:45 PM and were picked up by Wendy's folks to head to the zipline excursion that had been arranged by Wendy's mom. We had to catch the boat by 2:30 and made it with literally a minute to spare.
OK - I really want to tell the tale of ziplining but my eyes keep shutting while my fingers wait on the keys. More to come later - I promise!
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