Day #4: Zippin' Day

It was our day off, so we went ziplining today! At 10am Laura, Alyssa and I called our manager on duty and asked what comp tours we could get on, and it just so happened that there was a ziplining tour leaving at 10:45 from from the Mt. Roberts tram parking lot. We hopped on a boat with 3 older folks: a couple from Anacortes who had sailed their boat up to Juneau, and a gentleman from Molokai, HI. (They were an absolute HOOT.) They took us over to Douglas Island where we took a military style truck up to a building to get equipped. It felt good to be in a harness, I'm not going to lie, and in fact the last part of the excursion was a 50 foot rappel (with a super 8, interestingly enough) off of the last platform! So anyway after we got outfitted they took us up the hill past the Treadwell Gold Mine where we did 9 ziplines, the highest of which was 180 feet off the ground and got us going up to 40 mph, and 2 skybridges. The guides were a riot, 2 guys our age who just get to have fun all day every day, so we tipped them well, especially since we got on the tour for free. On our way back downtown we stopped at Pizzeria Roma on the wharf and had the most excellent garden veggie pizza I've ever had in my life, which I paid for with my tip money from yesterday. Then we came home, where I fell asleep for 2 1/2 hours. Yep, life is pretty rough.

The schedule for tomorrow isn't out yet, but I'm hoping I still have transfers for another couple of days just to get my material down. I don't think I'm ready for full-on tours yet, and I should still probably be doing more research on exactly what I want to say. Mondays are supposedly crazy though, with 4 or 5 ships, so I expect another 12 hour day (4 of those hours are overtime, booyah!). Time is already flying by - I can't believe we've almost been here for a week! September will be here before I even know it.