I didn’t sleep well last night as a cold was developing - I was feeling a sore throat coming on. I probably shouldn’t have pushed to walk to the breakwater yesterday. Also the people in the next cabin were playing their TV loudly so we could hear it through the walls. But I did get a solid 6 hours. We woke up to see the ship already docked at Seattle. I went to the buffet for a quick breakfast, then headed back downstairs to finish packing my carry-ons. We had to be out of the cabin by 8 and then hang around the ship for 40 minutes before getting off the ship. Our flight was at 3:30 though, so we’d have a couple of hours to kill. The transit was quite smooth; we waited in the theatre for our turn to leave, then picked up our luggage (where we found one of the suitcase was missing a wheel), got on the shuttle, go bussed to the airport’s cruise shuttle terminal, checked in right there (apparently cruise ship passengers can use a different checkin counter), dragged our luggage to the airport to drop off, and then passed security.
We then went to a sit-down restaurant for lunch, and sat there for almost 3 hours. I used that time to read, play games, buy cough medicine, and buy dinner. During that time the gate changed several times, and in the end we had to walk to a different terminal to catch our plane. The plane wasn’t full though; La Prof and I had a row of three seats all to ourselves.
The flight itself was only 4 1/2 hours; I read, watched the 2 episodes of Gilded Age that we couldn’t watch before our subscription ran out, listened to podcasts, and we were back. It felt substantially shorter than the flight out. We landed close to midnight, so by the time we picked up luggage it was almost 12:15. Then we had to take a shuttle to a lot somewhere off to the side of JFK (near the Leffers Blvd Airtrain stop), to pick up our Uber. Since it’s so late at night, there wasn’t a crowd, so it was an easy pickup. We got home around 1:30am.
We were a little worried about the house because we’d lost contact with the house’s smart appliances since Hubbard Glacier, but all our appliances are working; it’s just the wifi that was down. I tried manually rebooting the ONT and the router, but neither worked, so I’ll have to schedule a technician to come out and fix it. That is just as well; my throat is getting worse and I will probably take the rest of the week off. And we are at this point already used to having to manually flick a switch to turn on lights.
Mt. Rainier, and a seagull on our ship waiting for people to leave their breakfasts.
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