Mural Monday ~ Week 6

Well helllloooo from Skagway Alaska! John and I are having fun, eating our way up and down the north pacific. Honestly, I don’t think we’ve yet gone 3 hours without eating something! I am up and on a treadmill by 6:30 every morning, but I don’t think it’s enough to avoid gaining a little extra poundage this week. We’ve run across a whole lotta people that choose to spend most all of their vacations cruising. I can kinda see why…no real decisions to make aside from ‘should I play dominos or read?’ Lots of eating. No driving. Beautiful scenery.  Anyway, I didn’t forget it was Monday so here’s a mural from the ship.

It’s in the 500+ seat theatre that is onboard here. The entire thing is made of glass, and the glass is painted on the back side as you should be able to see here

We were literally the ONLY two people in that theatre yesterday, watching the 3pm movie while everyone else had gone to Juneau

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That little town is swarming with international tourists from 3 to 6 different cruise ships 6 days a week! (We did take a little boat over from 5 to 6pm just to say we checked it out, and I conversed with a couple of shopkeepers re the 411) I would go NUTS if that’s what my town had to depend on!

A couple of nights ago we walked into our room after dinner to find this on our bed.

It really kinda freaked me out at first! Wearing my spare glasses and all! I went out into the hall to ask Percy, our ‘cabin boy’ if he was the elephant artiste, and this is the funny smile he gave me in reply.

Yikes! Apparently, Percy’s job is to freshen our bed, leave chocolates on the pillows, and make towel animals whenever we leave our room for dinner. I wondered all day yesterday (between meals) what to expect that evening when we went back to our room after dinner and I was not too surprised to find this towel dog.

It’s really kind of odd, isn’t it? How he uses my personal belongings to decorate his little creations?. At least he hasn’t started using my jewelry or underwear (yet!).

Well, I think I’ll go find a snack to tide me over til the next meal. ;-) see ya next week!

Comments

[Doe]

Funnnnny! Can't wait to see more pictures of your trip.

[Sue McG]

ROFL - do you think the cabin staff have to go to Towel Seminars to hone their craft?? Do they fail the cabin staff test if their animals are not up to par???

Please be sure to post a pic when the animals are wearing your undies :)

[Estella Baker]

Oh Jen! Those towel animals are cute, but in a creepy way.... and I sure hope he doesn't start using your other belongings!

Looks like you're having fun though!

-Estella

[Barbara]

Too Too fun!!! So glad you are having a great time and love the towel creations!!! So very clever indeed!!! Can't wait to hear more about the cruise. I really want to go on an Alaskan cruise one of these days!!!

[jessi nagy]

how funny!
we have done 4 cruises. and those animals still scrare me. ha ha.
my kids love them.
we just returned from a cruise.
we had a towel monkey hanging from the ceiling, shades and all. scrary. by the morning he was de-capitated. ba ha.
hope you had a great trip.
jessi nagy

www.scrappyjessi.blogspot.com

[Jane Weston]

Well it keeps you guessing...I wonder what he'll come up with next. You'll have to leave something odd hanging around the room to see if he uses that. :o)

[dawn]

Sounds like a wonderful time...Thanks for sharing the photos.

[Erica Ruiz]

Hi mom! Glad to hear you are having fun! And eating real food all day! Wow! The towel animal thing cracks me up. When we went to Mexico, same thing! The maid would come every other day, get all the towels around and make phallic looking geese, birds, stuff like that. We kept making fun of them cause she would put real flower petals, or whatever around on them and they did look really phallic for some reason. And they always were on our beds. Like we are gonna shower in the bedroom! It was the first time I had ever seen anything like that. but not now with you! Strange...Becca kept saying how cute they were...Brian and I were a little wierded out! Hope you have a blast! Love you mom!

[pam]

those are so cute. I can't wait to see what he does with your bra's!

[suzyspence]

Hi Jen, sounds like tons of fun, and snacks, on your cruise. I totally agree that it's a bit freaky to find your stuff on the towel critters, but they are too cute! xo, suzy

[Tammy]

okay, that is a little freaky...cute, but a little freaky. have a great trip!!

[Sarah]

LOL, your cabin guy is quite crafty! I think the animals are cute, not odd at all!

[natalie]

Hi JEn!
Hope youre having a wonderful cruise!! Aren't the towel animals cute? One time I came in to find an almost lifesize "person" sitting in the bed...scared the @$%& out of me!!!! THey had used my jean jacket, towls, a hat, glasses, and even had my tennis shoes sticking out from under the blanket on the side of the bed.....Yikes!!! Bon Voyage!!!