After a restful night, I awoke to seeing the world passing by my window. After getting dressed, it was upstairs to the Lido Deck for breakfast. The first 48 hours on the ship, Holland America has staff serve all items on the buffet and drinks. This is an effort to prevent any illness from being brought on the ship and spread among the passengers. This is a nice precaution, but does slow service for meals. What do I want, there are so many choices. I love getting omelets made of the items Iike. I was able to ask for more onion in my omelet. Then some toast with orange marmalade and orange juice. After finding a table at a window, I sit down to enjoy. Some wildlife is spotted but I only manage to spot the ring from the blow. More opportunities are available each day.
Class this morning was entitled “Rocks, Ice and Weather” which was an introduction to basic geology of Alaska. John demonstrated about plate tectonics effects with 2 pieces of cardboard, mayo, catsup and mustard. He said that different colors of jam/jelly also work very well. He had several different suggestions for inexpensive ways to demonstrate geological concepts.
My how time flies! After 3 hours, we all headed off to lunch. We had Danish and cookies to munch on while drinking coffee and ice water during the class. I decided on a tuna sandwich that was grilled with a few chips. For dessert, I had a little bread pudding and some chocolate ice cream. I had heard that the bread pudding was to die for and it was good. Sitting by the pan of bread pudding was the recipe. I guess they have had so many requests for the recipe they just make it available.
A little time was available to view some scenery and search for wildlife before heading back for the afternoon sessions. We had a sharing time for how to use the information we learn back in our classroom. Then a session on using technology and what are some forward thinking ways to use blogs, face book and twitter with your class. We learned about a way that school can now run You Tube in a Safety Mode. You add a list of search terms that are not allowed so that students and teachers are not able to get to sites of concern. Steve’s staff is available to us all week to help with tech questions.
I had seen in the ship activity list, a tech session on making movies using a free software program. The 45 minute class was instruction followed by hands-on to try the information. We each received a 2 page hand-out. The hand-out contained information about where to get the software and information to get a more complete hand-out (about 6-8 pages) for each of the workshops offered this week. This is a great way to take some of the still pictures and make then into a presentation that seems to be a movie.
Tonight is a formal dinner night. Run off to the stateroom to change clothes. I have had lots of practice changing clothes quickly. Dinner choices were great and with so many choices make the decision difficult. After dinner, it was a trip to the Crows Nest to find a window to watch the scenery. No birds, so it off to the back deck to see if we can find birds or other animals. After a few pictures, it’s back to the Crows Nest. We found John reading and we try to determine what the bird is that people have been sighting.
Since I didn’t blog yesterday, I have been working on both Sunday and Monday activities. It is getting late, so I think I will actually upload tomorrow. No classes until about 11 when we enter Glacier Bay.
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