Jay’s Internet Log

We just saw a large pod of Orcas.  It was awesome.  Anyways, this morning was rainy, cloudy, and cold.  This is the first day that the weather hasn’t been agreeable and I was worried because today we were going into Glacier Bay for a day of glacier viewing, and I was looking forward to using the new video camera.  As the morning progressed and we got closer to Glacier Bay, Heather and I suited up in our waterproof gear, I threw the G10 into its waterproof casing, and we went out on the deck.  The wind wasn’t anything to worry about, but the rain would have destroyed an unprotected camera.  This didn’t stop most people from bringing theirs out on deck, but we were the only ones that had a waterproof one.  Mom and Dad were in the Royal Lounge, protected by the elements.   I brought the computer up there for a bit in hopes to post some of these up on the site, but the Internet was still flaky.  All the mountains all close up to us hinder the Internet in a huge way.  For lunch, we had burgers and hot dogs while we viewed glaciers.  I’m glad that Heather got to walk on one before seeing them today.  We saw many of them calving and I was able to break out the video camera a bit in the afternoon as the rain stopped periodically.  During dinner, a pod of Humpback Whales came up behind the ship and the whole dining room got up on their feet.  After dinner we saw more whales, including the aforementioned Orcas.  We are now waiting to see a show in the lounge; a show that we’ve seen twice already, on this ship and on one of the large ones.  The Captain just came on the loudspeaker and told us that we were heading into 14 foot swells tomorrow, so the ship should be rocking nicely.