What did I do this past week, you ask? Let me e'splain... No, there is too much, let me sum up:
Sunday was my first "Disco Day" I've had yet this season. Disco is our term for "Glacier Discovery", though if anyone wants to choreograph a dance or create a dance move called the Glacier Disco, please record it and send it to me. :) Anyways, a Disco day requires multiple trips to the glacier back and forth the entire day. It's pretty time sensitive because you end up dropping off a group at the same time you pick up the previous one. Luckily I only had 3 groups because my first group was an half hour late leaving the dock that morning. It made it so that I had to be late picking up my 2nd group. My 3rd (and last) group was fine and didn't even realize there was a time frame problem earlier. Just a typical Disco day, or so I'm told. :)
On Monday I had my first evening whale quest. Basically it's the last Whale watch tour for the day. When I was done I was finished late enough that I couldn't go to FHE, but that's alright because I did get to go to Institute on Wednesday.
Tuesday was a pretty normal day, and I got done early enough that I went for a short hike up near my apartment. I was looking for Perseverance Trail and accidentally to the "Flume" Trail. It's kind of like Cress Creek because most of the trail is actually built walkways. It was a nice hike, which means I'll have to try perseverance another time. ;)
Wednesday... oh, you mean Wednesday! Well, that started off as a very interesting day... I was having a good time, the weather was great, I got all my passengers on, and I had just gotten a green light from Tim (the Allen Marine dock rep) to head out to the BIMA (their barge/dock). Then, while I was backing out of Marine Park, I accidentally hit mirror on mirror with the bus to my right. I was backing up and thought my tires were straight, but they must have had a slight turn to them. I was watching my backer out of the driver-side mirror when I heard the sound on my right. I stopped, but it took just long enough to stop that my mirror went back on it's hinge. No damage, just misplaced. My co-worker pulled it out into place so I could see out of it, and then I left for the BIMA. I was kind of shaken and flustered but after I got onto the road I started my tour and everything was uphill from there. Later that day I even got a compliment on my driving from Justin at Allen Marine. I did have to fill out some paperwork on the incident, but I'm glad it was something minor as opposed to a real collision. Anyways, I did get to go to institute and make some new friends. :)
Thursday I gave my first Juneau Highlights tour. That's where they go to the Glacier, the State Museum, and the Salmon Hatchery. I really liked visiting the Hatchery, and my people were very punctual for transfer the whole trip. :)
Friday was my day off when I got to go shopping. I also got a piano to borrow for the summer from my friend/co-worker Dylan. It's a really old Analog-Synthesizer piano, but it'll do for practicing and having some fun every once in a while. I'll have to look up a manual sometime soon so I can actually figure out how to do the "voices" etc. :) Technically I guess you could call Saturday a day off as well. First they switched my schedule with Kyle (who I later found out drove a Temsco transfer for Alex Trebeck) so the only thing on my schedule was an Evening Whale Watch. I got to the yard, started pre-tripping my bus and then got a call that my Whale Watch was cancelled because not enough people signed up for it. I spent most of my time that day reading Mistborn. If you haven't read it yet, please do!!!
Yesterday I had two tours that were sandwiched inside of each other. I went to the glacier with a group and after I dropped them off at Allen Marine I went to do a Glacier Bake for a new group. They were both pretty good, and my tours are starting to flow normally now. I still need to learn more info that I can tell people though. I got to go to evening Church last night!!! They recently had some council that we should only be having the evening Sacrament meetings once a month though, so it'll be the first Sunday of every month. They're encouraging us to try and find slots in our schedules and work with our employers to attend one of the normal meetings at least for the sacrament. I'll see what I can do, but at least there is still one a month even if I can't. Afterwards we went over to Douglas to drop off the boys who live there and we all decided to go inside and have a little testimony meeting. The Spirit was so strong and I'm so glad to be working with these valiant brethren. :)
Today we have an afternoon ship so I don't know what the day has in store for me yet, but I'm sure I'll always make the best of it. :) Also, I've gotten into the habit of trying to read a bunch of different LDS/Devotional talks. If you have any that you would like to recommend, please let me know!
I love and miss you all!
[Insert fun signature sign-off phrase],
Shawni
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