well, that was fun…

NOT.

For whatever reason this morning, I decided to sign into my bank information. So glad that RCCL furnishes me with free wifi – it does help. Checked on a couple of purchases from yesterday – no hassles there – but whoa! There were twenty-seven (count-em – 27) charges floated from some firm or another in Texas. none of them were all that large – $11.45 & $21.95. But 27 in total. Not me, no way.

So I am left thinking about the fudge shop as perhaps a likely place (yes, this was in Skagway) as I can’t imagine such games from either the Quilt Shop or the Yarn Shop. Not only that, but those charges processed and were recorded to a local bank…

Checking in with my family, no one recognized the charges. So, here I am, off on a trip and have just needed to cancel my main credit card. I wound up having to do this about 18 months ago. It was a real pain. I had forgotten how many places one can “have a card on file.” Now that I think of it, I think it is one of the key reasons why I started using PayPal so much with Amazon as a backup. Fewer places that I had to provide credit card information.

I have already made the trip down to Guest Services to inform them that the credit card they had on file was no longer valid. Thank goodness I have a card off of George’s Bank for emergencies. Is cruising an emergency? And then there is a rather large refund coming in from another cruise line, which is probably going to bounce by the time it is processed. ….and it will be yet another phone call that I will have to make..

So, let us  move on.

I have mentioned that this is not a tiny ship. So cruising up Tracy Arm and back down means turning around slowly and carefully. There were plenty of chunks of ice in the water.

[and the photos won’t upload at the present – likely a result of too many people on the internet and limited bandwidth.]

And, unless you were outside on the deck (in the rain and high winds) the glacier is barely visible. There is so much loss in the last ten years, it is hard to even imagine…

I consoled myself with chocolate cake for lunch…

[and I promise I will upload the pictures when I get back to land….

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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2 Responses to well, that was fun…

  1. Ron says:

    Thanks for the credit card update. I’m just not nearly paranoid enough.

    • Holly says:

      I have become so in the last couple of years. Still seeing a few bits of idiocy showing up today (16 Oct)

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