Saturday | June 4th

This is our crazy, hectic turn-around day. Our expedition team helps the deck, galley and hotel departments with swabbing the decks, putting away the endless boxes of galley stores and cleaning the lounge and dining areas. We get 45-minutes off the ship before the new group of guest-passengers arrive, an improvement of 15 minutes from our inaugural visit two weeks ago.

Friends and family know that we are on an amazing summer voyage and that we love them and miss them and will eventually make it home for our two weeks vacation. I happen to have the latest slot for a break in August.

Some of us are randomly selected to submit a urine sample and fill out a Federal Drug Testing Custody and Control Form. This involves me as a donor and our HM as a collector. Specimen bottles are sealed, signed, put in an envelope and mailed to a test facility where a medical review officer will receive the specimen and give a negative verification.

Later, after taking on our new passengers, our Chief Engineer barks over my radio: “Bridge, this is the engine room. You are good to energize the bow thrusters.” We push off the dock, slowly slip by the huge cruise ships that occupy city blocks worth of real estate and head south in Gastineau Channel for a new weeks worth of adventures.

 

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