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Mr. Senor Paxson Revel wrote the title, in his first foray into journalism. I think he might be a new age poet. Or meditation guru. I was thinking of calling it, "Happy Mother's Day", but his title seems just as good.

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We went out tourist watching today. Tourists are rare in these parts. The first of 6 cruise ships to come through town this summer stopped by today, and many frigid looking retirees were bumbling about the town. It was strange to see so many people out walking around all at once. Especially given the weather, which didn't exactly cooperate. (Partly snowy, no chance of sunlight. Occasional glimpses of the mountains. 36 degrees.) They seemed happy though, and it was good to feel like an authentic curiousity to people. "You actually live here? How long are you staying?"

Come now, who wouldn't want to live here??

Taxi cab business was brisk today and our local customs and police officers got to be on official duty.

Here's Boo checking out the scene...

The itinerary of this particular cruise sounds pretty fun. Osaka, Tokyo, Hokkaido, Petropavlask, here, Kodiak, Southeast, Vancouver. The only downful I see with a cruise of that magnitude is you'd be seriously at risk of doubling your body weight. And as an older lady with a sun visor wrapped tightly underneath her hooded rain jacket mentioned while trying to block the wind from pelting small particles of snow into her face, "we haven't seen much sun during this cruise...."



I like the Purel hand sanitizers so they don't take any Dutch Harbor germs back to the ship!

Apparently one of the cruise ship passengers had to be medevac'd. As you drive to the city dock, you pass by the end of the airport runway. If a plane is landing, you have to stop until it lands, otherwise you run the risk of crashing into a plane's landing gear, which nobody is excited about. At any rate, here's the scene in pictures.

This is the medivac plane coming in for a landing...Guardian Flight.

Who would've ever guessed that the oil companies have been bribing our Alaska state representatives? Hey, at least they actually got busted! Now that's a first.