Hobbit, the cruise ship and a '39 Packard Touring Car
This will actually be my first time doing a port stop from a cruise ship. It is sunny in Haines and expected to be in the high 60’s. And lo and behold it was sunny and warm all day. Wendell and I had a great bike ride down the coast road. It was very pretty.
We stopped onto the ship for lunch and there was a field trip of school kids from Haines. Haines is a very small town. The activities director was telling us later that it was a total blast because the kids were so excited about absolutely everything. They got to have lunch in the lido buffet which was very exciting. They saw the pool and got very excited and said ‘we should have brought our swimsuits’ not having a pool in Haines. They went up to the disco and Mark turned on the lights and music and that was very exciting. They got to ride up and down the escalator which was very exciting. They got to ride up and down in the elevator which was very exciting. The teacher said most of the kids had never seen an escalator before and though there is one elevator on the ferry that some had seen, most had not seen an elevator before.
We were touring the fort in Haines when my recruiter from Volt called. She and I discussed a position at Microsoft while Hobbit, bored, snapped this photo of me yakking on the phone with the cruise ship and mountains in the background.
Then in the afternoon we went on the ‘Alaskan Wildlife Adventure Tour’ with Mom and Dad. It’s this guy who raises wild animals so that he can do educational programs and use them in documentaries. So for example he has a lynx that he carried out that he could walk up to us about 6 inches away. We couldn’t touch the lynx but we got to see it from very close. He was purring really loudly.
We went to look at the baby moose and he was holding a bottle. Knowing what was coming he got about as far as ‘who wants to ...’ and I had my hand up in the air waving it and saying ‘ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!’. I was actually leaning over Mother, who also had her arm up, but she was no competition for me. So guess who got to feed the baby moose?
Wendell says that the Alaska Wildlife Adventure guy has the wild-eyed look of a man who’s spent too many winters in the Alaskan Bush. I thought he was really nice and very passionate about what he does. It was nice to be at a facility that isn’t obsessed with ‘nature must be left alone’. The facility owners understand that some nature needs to be available to the people so that they will understand and care about nature.
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