made it!

Am here, am sunburned, but not too bad. That aloe stuff works when the spf 30 runs out of steam. There will be plenty of pictures to come, but being a vain sort you'll have to wait until there's at least some tan to go with the burn.

Having fun, wish you were here. Morning routine includes Anthony's coffee where the staff is hardworking and happy and the food is awesome. It's one of the few places open in the morning that makes good lunches for the folks driving up to Hana. I can think of a few (at least one) coffee shop in the ol' hometown that could take lessons from these folks.

Yesterday did my first in a long time snorkel ... new semi insulated rash guard type top kept me warm and gave me confidence to push through the surf, but the new snorkel and mask were difficult... more practice! Inspite of the "oh yeah, this little plastic tube is going to keep me alive??" feeling I got to see my first humu-humu-nuku-nuku-apu-aa of the trip.

Waiting...

The ferry leaves here at 7:45pm so I have to wait. The first plane leaves at 7 am so I get to wait in the Juneau airport for about 4 hours... then the Seattle airport for about 4 hours. At least the Seattle waiting will be during the day so I can take a bus down town or over to Southcenter to freak myself out then scurry back to the airport to ... wait.

For those of you in places bigger than this... Southcenter mall (or what ever they call it now) is huge by Haines' standards hence the freak out.

Getting homework done ahead of trip

Sewing beads and buying supplies... must be winter. I was aware that that's what seasonal sellers do before, but now I live it. All summer you sell what you can, keeping up production in case big pieces sell. All winter you restock the portfolio to try to get ahead of the summer.

I also found another source for brass cuff blanks, new shapes! The cuff in the middle is one of the new ones, wider in the middle so I can use bigger cabs but narrow on the ends for comfort. I really like the new shape. The wavy one at the bottom is fun to work with, we'll see how that looks when it's sewn up. I really like the way the rose hip looks against the lighter blue, and of course light blue is a traditional background color.


Darn wires. One of the small views out my windows... I'll use this and a couple others to practice water color painting in preparation for painting Hawaiian views . I haven't used my water colors for ages, need to practice up!