hello from juneau!

here we are in the the capitol city of juneau… another beautiful gray day, and we walked around and enjoyed it.  i have been trying to pick up the little cruiser freebies here and there, the freshwater pearl earrings, the free gemstone pendant (super teeny…), the free polished rocks, i always forget these are out there.  you do usually have to let them show you the $6,000 rings and stuff for the trouble, but it’s fun to look! 

my theme was ‘showtime!’ which includes songs from the big screen, the broadway stage and television themes, even a few commercials… we then have requests til the night is over… i have been lucky enough the last couple of nights to have a few friends drop by and sit in – the guitar player, our friend, dan, from seattle, who is great, a french Canadian sax player named kevan, who is also great, and last night two of the singers from the showroom singers and dancers dropped a few tunes… lots of fun!  the guests really enjoy those impromptu moments, and i am grateful our entertainment leadership allows this – i have been with others who don’t, and i feel they rob the guests of some singular moments that will not happen again… good stuff!

i will be putting my alaskan port song lyrics together on one blog entry at the end of the alaska season with pictures… it has taken me a couple of alaskan summers to get together all the best stuff for each place we go, and i think i have enough now to do an alaskan- themed cruise ship cd to bring with me next time i do the alaska season.  the cd i have now is down to the last few copies, so i will be making a couple of new cd’s when i get home over the holidays to take out with me for the 2012 season.  new stuff is good!  original new stuff is better!  i think bob and i will also throw a duo cd down as well to have when we play together on the home front…

pics of juneau i will have to upload in anchorage - bandwidth out here is tiny, slow, and expensive...  ciao for now!