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Day Three

Not quite so lazy as day two. Still moderately lazy, though, just in case you were wondering.

We have the wake up call set for 7:00 a.m., but at about 6:30, we’re both laying in bed, wondering if the other one is awake and needing to pee, but not wanting to get up and flush the loudest toilet on the fucking planet in case the other’s still asleep. This went on until the alarm went off. Squishy apparently contemplated peeing, but not flushing the toilet. She says it was out of courtesy, I think she’s just a dirty, dirty girl. In case you were wondering, I did not contemplate doing that, but for a minute there towards the end, I was a little afraid I’d wet myself. When the phone finally rang (thank god), we shot up, went to the bathroom and opened the curtains to check the view:

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Much better than the one we had the night before going to bed. My parents were going up to the observatory, so we followed and saw sea lions and whales. Pictures of whales and Sealions can be seen on Day Five, as my camera did not have enough zoom to focus in from the top of the ship.  Once the whale excitement was over and everyone else was on the observation deck, my dad got down on one knee and asked my mother to marry him again. She of course said yes, but she considered saying no, just to fuck with him. Here’s my dad on one knee:

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Me and Squishy got food again and went to take a nap. Mom woke us up again an hour later to see this:

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It was awesome. You could hear the crunching as the sheets of ice started to break off and even saw a few fall. Now, as a public service announcement, we would like anyone who drinks glacier water and thinks of it as clean, to see this and remember: Glaciers carve out mountains. Which means they pick up dirt and silt as they go. That’s not clean, people. It’s actually very, very dirty. Not to mention birds perch on them. And poop on them. Note the second picture of a floating block of glacier ice. Anyone thirtsy?

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