Travelogue Day 7--let's be lazy
August 8
I didn’t order room service, wanting to check out the main cafeteria’s breakfast, so got up at 7:00. Went back to bed and got up for good at 8:30 but there were still plenty of seats. I’ve mostly avoided the café at main meal times (ex. Noon for lunch) because of the huge crush but it wasn’t that busy. I had another banger, another eggs benedict, another helping of honeydew, and some blueberry French toast. Stopped by parents’ room to make sure they were alive, then returned to my suite for more fanfic reading.
My nail appointment was for 1:45. When I left my suite around 1:25 it was sunny. When I got upstairs to the salon it was foggy and then during the ninety minute appointment it slowly turned back to sun. The manicurist, Christine from Jamaica, chided me for biting my cuticles-I don’t bite my nails after doing so for the first 35 years of my life-but was very friendly and fun. She sang to herself at times. I went with the acrylic nails and the process is very funky and fascinating. She gave me free polish because it was my first time getting the nails, which was sweet. I bought some oil for my cuticles which was probably twice as much as the polish would have been. Basecoat, two red coats, topcoat. Nails are hard as rocks but they feel weird.
My pedicurist doesn’t do the fake nails so I’ve never gotten them and I’m very hard on my real nails-they snag and break and I don’t take file them unless they’re really jagged so I’m going to have to get used to them. Obviously I can type. As I suck at putting on polish I’ll have to start going to get that done, along with my toes.
The nails cost $83 plus added on tip of 15% plus I gave her some more. As I still had about $75 of credit I bought the rose gold colored Guess watch I’d seen in the shops for $105.
Stopped by parents’ suite to show off my nails and found out that brother’s family was skipping the excursion to Victoria tonight-gardens and a Scottish castle. Brother wasn’t feeling great-tired-and sister-in-law spent the day at bingo and needed to pack (she and nephew each have at least two suitcases-she has two different sets of hair rollers, IDEK). Mom was okay with going or staying but you have to climb over eighty stairs in the castle and dad wasn’t sure he could do that. I said it was fine to blow it off. I hadn’t packed yet and we could eat a later dinner than originally planed (our tour was to start at 6:15). Our suitcases had to be outside our rooms by 11:00 to be organized by the time you get off the ship. As super special people, we get to meet in one of the restaurants (not the theater or huge space so kind of like first class plane tickets get you into the lounges) and got to pick our time-9:15 to 9:45. No room service but breakfast started at 6:00 so plenty of time to eat before we were supposed to vacate our rooms by 8:00.
As we were international (which they do so they can hire foreign staff without hassle of American labor laws apparently) we have to go through customs. Stuff you buy on the ship you have to declare (over $800) but not stuff you bought in Alaska, obviously. I only bought the watch, a purse, the oil, and some personal hygiene products.
Had dinner up at the cafe-roast veal, beef curry, a sausage, salad, cauliflower and carrots with the parents. We docked and cleared customs while we were eating and the place really cleared out. After they left, I got some sugar free icecream. The server asked ‘why sugar free’ which was really sweet, but he understood when I said ‘diabetic’.
Really, everyone was just so nice.
I ate it while checking my email-not quite sure if I was roaming in Canada this close to Washington or not, didn’t care either though I turned data usage back off when I was done. Still couldn’t send emails for some unknown reason.
As soon as I’m in my hotel room in Seattle I’ll be able to respond as well as do the naughty on Teen Wolf. Mom and I are going shopping.
I packed while watching NFL football. At 8:30 I went down to get a peach flavored coffee and listened to jazz again. I also got a free sugar free cookie. The drink cost a bit.
Apparently everyone in a suite gets a credit. Once you’re over that, your key/seapass card charges go on your credit card and I went over by about $50. I bought one $2 bottle of water from the mini-bar and spent money in the casino. So basically my nails, watch, the purse I bought the first day, drinks and the molecular bar thing were paid for by my brother getting me a suite. *g* I paid for the oil for my cuticles.
Horsed my suitcase outside my door and took a shower then went back to read more fanfic as the ship sailed for Seattle.
I didn’t order room service, wanting to check out the main cafeteria’s breakfast, so got up at 7:00. Went back to bed and got up for good at 8:30 but there were still plenty of seats. I’ve mostly avoided the café at main meal times (ex. Noon for lunch) because of the huge crush but it wasn’t that busy. I had another banger, another eggs benedict, another helping of honeydew, and some blueberry French toast. Stopped by parents’ room to make sure they were alive, then returned to my suite for more fanfic reading.
My nail appointment was for 1:45. When I left my suite around 1:25 it was sunny. When I got upstairs to the salon it was foggy and then during the ninety minute appointment it slowly turned back to sun. The manicurist, Christine from Jamaica, chided me for biting my cuticles-I don’t bite my nails after doing so for the first 35 years of my life-but was very friendly and fun. She sang to herself at times. I went with the acrylic nails and the process is very funky and fascinating. She gave me free polish because it was my first time getting the nails, which was sweet. I bought some oil for my cuticles which was probably twice as much as the polish would have been. Basecoat, two red coats, topcoat. Nails are hard as rocks but they feel weird.
My pedicurist doesn’t do the fake nails so I’ve never gotten them and I’m very hard on my real nails-they snag and break and I don’t take file them unless they’re really jagged so I’m going to have to get used to them. Obviously I can type. As I suck at putting on polish I’ll have to start going to get that done, along with my toes.
The nails cost $83 plus added on tip of 15% plus I gave her some more. As I still had about $75 of credit I bought the rose gold colored Guess watch I’d seen in the shops for $105.
Stopped by parents’ suite to show off my nails and found out that brother’s family was skipping the excursion to Victoria tonight-gardens and a Scottish castle. Brother wasn’t feeling great-tired-and sister-in-law spent the day at bingo and needed to pack (she and nephew each have at least two suitcases-she has two different sets of hair rollers, IDEK). Mom was okay with going or staying but you have to climb over eighty stairs in the castle and dad wasn’t sure he could do that. I said it was fine to blow it off. I hadn’t packed yet and we could eat a later dinner than originally planed (our tour was to start at 6:15). Our suitcases had to be outside our rooms by 11:00 to be organized by the time you get off the ship. As super special people, we get to meet in one of the restaurants (not the theater or huge space so kind of like first class plane tickets get you into the lounges) and got to pick our time-9:15 to 9:45. No room service but breakfast started at 6:00 so plenty of time to eat before we were supposed to vacate our rooms by 8:00.
As we were international (which they do so they can hire foreign staff without hassle of American labor laws apparently) we have to go through customs. Stuff you buy on the ship you have to declare (over $800) but not stuff you bought in Alaska, obviously. I only bought the watch, a purse, the oil, and some personal hygiene products.
Had dinner up at the cafe-roast veal, beef curry, a sausage, salad, cauliflower and carrots with the parents. We docked and cleared customs while we were eating and the place really cleared out. After they left, I got some sugar free icecream. The server asked ‘why sugar free’ which was really sweet, but he understood when I said ‘diabetic’.
Really, everyone was just so nice.
I ate it while checking my email-not quite sure if I was roaming in Canada this close to Washington or not, didn’t care either though I turned data usage back off when I was done. Still couldn’t send emails for some unknown reason.
As soon as I’m in my hotel room in Seattle I’ll be able to respond as well as do the naughty on Teen Wolf. Mom and I are going shopping.
I packed while watching NFL football. At 8:30 I went down to get a peach flavored coffee and listened to jazz again. I also got a free sugar free cookie. The drink cost a bit.
Apparently everyone in a suite gets a credit. Once you’re over that, your key/seapass card charges go on your credit card and I went over by about $50. I bought one $2 bottle of water from the mini-bar and spent money in the casino. So basically my nails, watch, the purse I bought the first day, drinks and the molecular bar thing were paid for by my brother getting me a suite. *g* I paid for the oil for my cuticles.
Horsed my suitcase outside my door and took a shower then went back to read more fanfic as the ship sailed for Seattle.