Susan's Travel Sagas

(cormorants) - black and grey.  we just floated along for a while - it was such an incredible experience, so peaceful and such a connection with nature. We had to leave just as another large group was coming in. Then we headed south to Anchorage, our pickup point.

We boarded the water taxi, with some kayaks loaded behind. I was speaking to an older woman sitting behind me who was from Scotland. Turns out many years ago she had trained as a pediatric nurse in London at Great Ormond Street Hospital and worked in Edinburgh as a pediatric nurse until she had her family. We compared notes about how hard it is to spend time in such a children’s hospital with so many sick children and lose sight of the fact that most children really are healthy.

Once back at the office, I got a ride back to the B&B, freshened up (like a hot shower) and then joined Laura for dinner. One of the options at the B&B was to have a home cooked Italian meal (for an extra charge). I thought that would be nice to day and it gave me an opportunity to have someone I sort of knew to eat dinner with. The meal was good, a pasta dish from southern Italy with vegetables, a little spicy with some chilis in it, asparagus with a saffron sauce and a torte, and then an almond pudding with homemade cherry syrup and cherries on it. All was quite nice. Sandor came home just as we were finishing dinner; he had been teaching an Italian class in Nelson that evening.