I’m sure that everyone is as excited as I am about this three day weekend. Working retail for so long has really made me appreciate a long weekend. When you’re the manager of a discount retail store, all three day weekends mean to you is that someone is going to call in sick and you’ll have to work ALL WEEKEND LONG!!!! I really am glad I decided to go back to school and quit that job.
So here I am heading out to the beach for a long weekend and then hitting the books and back to class. Man does that sound good or what?
I will give it to my father. He couldn’t have planned a better vacation even if Mom and I would have helped him. I would love to go back in the fall or early winter. It was so very beautiful but Alaska would be awesome in the winter so you can see the winter light displays in the sky. You know, the Northern Lights.
Isn’t this absolutely beautiful? The wonders of nature at their best.
Yeah this looks cold but beautiful at the same time!!!
What an awesome sight to wake up to a nice cool morning in August with the ocean at one side of the ship and snow capped mountains on the other side. If you’ve never seen that, I highly recommend it. The cruise itself has been amazing with all of the food and entertainment on board ship but now the fun really begins not that we will be leaving the ship to explore different parts of Alaska. I can’t wait.
Well today is the day that we depart San Francisco for Alaska. The cruise ship leaves port at 12 noon. We have had a great time in San Francisco and I’m looking so forward to the cruise. Dad finally told us it’s a 10 day cruise but that’s all. I’m sure once we are aboard ship, we’ll find out more. I thought that once we were ready to board ship, Dad would finally fill Mom and I in but as always, he’s being rather tight lipped. I guess that’s the lawyer in him. You never reveal your strategy or evidence until it’s time. Well, I think it’s time, don’t you?
Well here we are in San Francisco. Man what a beautiful town. This is the first time we have ever been here. That famous street that has been in all of those movies that is so crooked, well we went down it and it is just like you see in the movies. Duh-huh huh? Anyway it was totally awesome.
We also visited Alcatraz. I swear you could almost hear the former prisoners hollering through the halls. It was sort of scary to think that men were actually locked away in there. I guess I have too much of a tender heart but seeing that place only made me realize that being a parole officer is exactly what I want to be. I believe that there are some people that are evil but most of the people that have been incarcerated are a victim of their environment or circumstance. Dad says I look at people through rose colored glasses and maybe so but if people would just have a little more compassion for others, there might not be so many repeat offenders. That’s just my opinion right now anyway.