More zip lines!

I know I said I'd post a picture of my new apartment, but I'm sad to say that the whale is no longer jutting out of the roof. I am not sure where it has gone or who took it down, but I was really looking forward to saying, "I live in the building with the large whale sticking out of the top of it."

Yesterday we finished prepping the store! It is all cleaned up and ready to go. After work, many of the guides and I played bananagrams. It is a form of scrabble and although I didn't manage to win a single game, it was a lot of fun!

Today is a long day. A FAM group has come to Ketchikan and has meetings lined up with many tour companies in town. The FAM group consists of reps from various cruise ships and the trips' purpose is for them to learn about the different tour companies in the area and what they have to offer their cruise passengers. This morning we had a group at the zip line camp and we served them breakfast and showed them videos educating them about our zip line tours and walking tour. Erica (the girl who interviewed me for this position) is in town. She is my Alaskan twin! After breakfast we got to run the zip line course with the new canopy guides that started training today. The zip cords were wet from rain, which caused us to zip faster. It was even more fun today than the first time! However, for the second half of the course, a few of the guides had me thinking that something was wrong with my harness. I guess that just added to the excitement... (they were only joking of course). We have another FAM group tonight. They are running the zip line course now and then we will have a dinner at Taquan.

Skunk cabbage has begun to grow around the camp. Bears eat a lot of twigs, etc before hibernation to block up their system and then eat skunk cabbage afterwards to clean out their system. There is also word that a few bears have been shot around the area (people are allowed to hunt one bear per person in Alaska). Needless to say, these are the beginning signs of bear season. I am ecstatic to see bears outside of a zoo!

Tomorrow, the first cruise ship arrives. I am anxious to start the season!

Back to work for now...