{"id":129,"date":"2006-07-30T13:14:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T22:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/?p=129"},"modified":"2006-07-30T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T22:14:29","slug":"stan-stephens-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2006\/07\/30\/stan-stephens-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Stephen&#8217;s Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well as many of you know, my sister Katie works for <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Prince William Sound Tours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stanstephenscruises.com\/\">Stan Stephen&#8217;s Cruises<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They take tourists out on large boats to look at the glaciers, and marine wild life.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically Katies job is to visit with the tourists on the boat, help point out the sights, and serve a lunch along the way. She was kind enough to use her free passes to take me and the rest of the family out for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a pictrue of Katie passing out a little cheat sheet of the animals we may see on the trip.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Katie Preso\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/07\/Kaite_preso.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture of her explaining to me what this coffee mug is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"256\" alt=\"Katie Explaining\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/07\/katie_explaining.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now when we got on the boat I was talking to Katie about her job.\u00c2\u00a0 We were talking about how lunch is served, and she told me that she carries out the bowls of clam chowder, bagles, and cups of juice to all the passengers in their seats.\u00c2\u00a0 Now having spent some time on boats like this I new that they could get a little rocky at times with the weather.\u00c2\u00a0 So I asked her if she had ever spilled before.\u00c2\u00a0 She told me that no she had never spilled, not even onece.\u00c2\u00a0 I told her I was impressed, that I was surprised she hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Well any guesses what happened an hour later???<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"218\" height=\"294\" alt=\"Katie's Little Accident\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/07\/katie_clean.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thats right, thats minestroni all over the floor.\u00c2\u00a0 She was passing out the bowls of soup and other stuff, and though she had her tray, but there was one bowl of minestroni left on the back corner.\u00c2\u00a0 She went to hold the tray down by her side, and off went the bowl of soup.\u00c2\u00a0 Poor girl.\u00c2\u00a0 I must have jinxed her.<\/p>\n<p>We saw some beautiful icebergs, as well as sea otters, sea lions, a micky whale, bald eagles, deer, and puffins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"305\" height=\"228\" alt=\"Colombia Glacier Iceberg\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/07\/ice_burg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took the time to take a self portrait of me with the sea lions in the back ground.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" alt=\"Me on deck\" src=\"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/files\/2006\/07\/me_deck.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a lot of fun, and nice to be out on the water.\u00c2\u00a0 Katie has a pretty cool summer job.\u00c2\u00a0 I will get her to post a bunch of her pictures on the gallery.\u00c2\u00a0 She has some pretty amazing photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well as many of you know, my sister Katie works for Stan Stephen&#8217;s Cruises.\u00c2\u00a0 They take tourists out on large boats to look at the glaciers, and marine wild life.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically Katies job is to visit with the tourists on the boat, help point out the sights, and serve a lunch along the way. 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