Post by Merlot Joe on Jul 27, 2008 0:08:53 GMT -6
Well just got home from our Alaska Cruise. We had a great time but had a few road bumps along the way. I'll try to make a long story short.
We left Thursday night and all was fine, but Friday morning things turn to shit for about an hour. My brother called me and said that our field rep for our chemical company found some mildew in one block of vineyard. Just what I fucking needed to hear on my first day of vacation. So I had to give them instructions on how to set up the sprayers since that is my job. We where still in San Francisco so almost jumped in the car and went home, but one look from Denice stopped that idea dead in it's tracks. Joe screw up #1.
After getting that set up we got on our tour bus for the tour of San Francisco. It was great. We never go to the city so we got to see some places we haven't been for years and some we never seen before. We had lunch at a nice little restaurant in Sausalito and then took the ferry back to the city. After that we went to a Giants game had a few couple of drinks, a few beers, a burger and watched the Brewers kick their sorry asses all over San Francisco.(froze our asses off an it Cost me 50 bucks to get Denice a Giants blanket).
Saturday morning we take off for Seattle. Get there, get our luggage and head for the Cruise ship reps. We give them our luggage and they ask for our tickets and passports. I open our document bag give them out tickets and what the fuck my passport is missing. Someplace between the plane and there I lost the fucking thing, while getting our tickets out for the ship. I had open our doucment bag while walking to baggage claim to seperated our tickets from all the other shit in there, so that I would have to fuss when we got to Norwegians Airport check in. Joe BIG screw up# 2
So I take off running tracing back everyplace we have been looking for the damn thing. Did I find it NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!. I find security tell them, they help me search no luck. So here I am no passport, no cruise. Denice is about ready to kill me. In the mean time while I am running around like a chicken without a head, she asks the cruise people what can we do so we can get on the ship. They said have someone fax a copy of my birth certificate to the Harbor Master and pick it up when we get there. So she calls our youngest daughter Staci (this is Rubi's mom) who races to our house gets my birth certificate out of the safe and faxes it to Seattle. In the mean time I am still looking when she calls me (Staci) on my cell phone and says."Nice job dad you really screwed up this time, mom is going to kill you. Guess what I faxed your birth certifcate up there so have a nice trip".
So we finally get on the bus and it was a rather quite ride to the ship. (I was in real deep shit here guys). We get there ask for the Harbor Masters office and this young guy says what do you need him for. I tell the story. He heads off and come back about 15 minutes. In the mean time the pile of shit I was in with the wife was getting deeper. Finally he comes back and says is"is this what you want". Saints be praised he had the copy of my birth certificate. On the ship we go. My ass is out of trouble, well almost. She was still pissed over all the bullshit.
Finally we boarded the ship give them our ID cards and the guy on the gangway says"your Joseph". I'm like WTF did I do now. Well they had screwed up and given somebody our room on the ship so we had to go to the front desk and get that cleared up. Lucky for them it took about 5 minutes. Finally we get to our cabin dropped our carryon items on the bed and it was off to the bar. The rest of the trip went great from there.
The food was great, they had more booze on the ship than I could drink and believe me I tried. The entertainment was great everynight and the ship was very comfortable. We done four shore excursions and they all where a blast.
I haven't down loaded any of the photo's yet but I will in the next couple of days.
I still have the job of getting a new passport. I sent In the lost passport form already.
Joe.
We left Thursday night and all was fine, but Friday morning things turn to shit for about an hour. My brother called me and said that our field rep for our chemical company found some mildew in one block of vineyard. Just what I fucking needed to hear on my first day of vacation. So I had to give them instructions on how to set up the sprayers since that is my job. We where still in San Francisco so almost jumped in the car and went home, but one look from Denice stopped that idea dead in it's tracks. Joe screw up #1.
After getting that set up we got on our tour bus for the tour of San Francisco. It was great. We never go to the city so we got to see some places we haven't been for years and some we never seen before. We had lunch at a nice little restaurant in Sausalito and then took the ferry back to the city. After that we went to a Giants game had a few couple of drinks, a few beers, a burger and watched the Brewers kick their sorry asses all over San Francisco.(froze our asses off an it Cost me 50 bucks to get Denice a Giants blanket).
Saturday morning we take off for Seattle. Get there, get our luggage and head for the Cruise ship reps. We give them our luggage and they ask for our tickets and passports. I open our document bag give them out tickets and what the fuck my passport is missing. Someplace between the plane and there I lost the fucking thing, while getting our tickets out for the ship. I had open our doucment bag while walking to baggage claim to seperated our tickets from all the other shit in there, so that I would have to fuss when we got to Norwegians Airport check in. Joe BIG screw up# 2
So I take off running tracing back everyplace we have been looking for the damn thing. Did I find it NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!. I find security tell them, they help me search no luck. So here I am no passport, no cruise. Denice is about ready to kill me. In the mean time while I am running around like a chicken without a head, she asks the cruise people what can we do so we can get on the ship. They said have someone fax a copy of my birth certificate to the Harbor Master and pick it up when we get there. So she calls our youngest daughter Staci (this is Rubi's mom) who races to our house gets my birth certificate out of the safe and faxes it to Seattle. In the mean time I am still looking when she calls me (Staci) on my cell phone and says."Nice job dad you really screwed up this time, mom is going to kill you. Guess what I faxed your birth certifcate up there so have a nice trip".
So we finally get on the bus and it was a rather quite ride to the ship. (I was in real deep shit here guys). We get there ask for the Harbor Masters office and this young guy says what do you need him for. I tell the story. He heads off and come back about 15 minutes. In the mean time the pile of shit I was in with the wife was getting deeper. Finally he comes back and says is"is this what you want". Saints be praised he had the copy of my birth certificate. On the ship we go. My ass is out of trouble, well almost. She was still pissed over all the bullshit.
Finally we boarded the ship give them our ID cards and the guy on the gangway says"your Joseph". I'm like WTF did I do now. Well they had screwed up and given somebody our room on the ship so we had to go to the front desk and get that cleared up. Lucky for them it took about 5 minutes. Finally we get to our cabin dropped our carryon items on the bed and it was off to the bar. The rest of the trip went great from there.
The food was great, they had more booze on the ship than I could drink and believe me I tried. The entertainment was great everynight and the ship was very comfortable. We done four shore excursions and they all where a blast.
I haven't down loaded any of the photo's yet but I will in the next couple of days.
I still have the job of getting a new passport. I sent In the lost passport form already.
Joe.
