The day that
Michael got on board she said that she would be awake by 6:30 each day and today
it was 9:30 Alaska time. Before noon we had pulled anchor and we were slowly
heading towards Sitka. We were procrastinating looking for the house from the
movie, which we determined to be back east! Sitka has definitely changed since
the last time we were here. It is a really pretty area and you could see all
the new houses that had been added to the growing population of 80,000. We came
all the way across town and tied up to a lovely marina. One thing that I really
liked up there was that the boat slips were really wide because of all of the
fishing vessels.
The rest of
the afternoon was all about chores. We washed the boat and scrubbed the
interior. Dad has a condo in Sitka so we packed up all the laundry and headed
over to take showers and do laundry. Dad wanted to get the oil changed and to
go shopping at the marine store and I wanted to get my nails done.
It had been
five weeks since we left and I was down to only five nails left. Dad talked to
his neighbor in Sitka and got a referral which I called. What an experience, the
woman spoke no English – none! The owner
of the store was using her lap top to translate between us. My pedicure was
nice, but very basic…my feet were in a bucket. Next up was the nails. The owner
of the store was busy with a haircut and I was left with the woman calling
people on the phone who were serving as translators.
Two hours
later, Wendy had showered, moved laundry along and was at Ernie’s Saloon having
a beer. Dad had the oil changed and had been to the store twice. Shiner had
completed her shopping and Thor was ready to hang a taxi sign on the truck. Back
at the salon, my nail girl was on her third nail. She was doing them one at a
time. The owner was so sweet, she came over to try and help and made the
comment that she needs to watch the video so she can help her learn what to do! Oh my, my hands were a mess! 
After my
adventure at the salon, Thor picked me up and I went to the condo to move the
laundry along and get a shower. It was lovely to have a nice long shower. For
dinner, Dad had selected the Chanel Club and Thor decided to treat everyone. Dinner
was fabulous. Michael and I had a wonderful curry halibut and everyone else had
steak. As we walked out of the restaurant we were greeted by the most beautiful
sunset. The skies were full of color. I tried to get some good pictures with my
little camera but they didn’t really turn out.
After dinner
we came back to the boat to get our chores finished which included updating the
blog, switching out the broken printer and fixing the leaking head. It was a
late night and we still didn’t get everything done. Michael and Thor worked on
the laundry and making another trip all the way up the dock, Wendy and I worked
on the printer which worked great until we moved it back downstairs and it
stopped, Dad fixed the head. Tomorrow, Wendy and Michael are flying out around
1:00 and the boat is heading towards Ketchikan with Thor. 
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