Working with the pictures

Roxie found her Senior Picture. She scanned and emailed it to me. Gotta love technology--at least when it's working and I have enough know-how to get it to do what I want it to. I'd been thinking about "antiquing" my picture, so I did that with Roxie's too. I had to play with the colors a little to get them to do what I wanted, but I'm pretty pleased with the results. I can't figure out how to get them all the same size. When I put them back in with the new coloring, they are smaller than Aunt Colene's. But that's fine, because she is, after all, the MAIN chick.

Okay, second post. Experimenting to see how to post pictures. This is a picture of the Golden Princess that I found online. We're on the starboard side, room B419, with a balcony. We're planning to bring some rain gear and warm clothes and spend some time on that balcony, hopefully seeing some wildlife! I've read some reviews where folks were whining about not being able to use the balcony because of the rain. Did they not know that they were traveling along the coast of a rain forest? Some complained because it was cold...duh, it's Alaska, folks. I guess they heard the word "cruise" and assumed it was tropical. Anyway, I stopped reading those reviews. I know that there will be some lines and waiting. You can't put that many people in one place and expect the world to revolve around you. I bet the other two chicks and I can find the silver lining to the situations that we find ourselves in. It's just in our genes that way!

testing, testing

My first dip into the blog world. I'm hoping to be able to post an update each day of our Alaskan adventure to keep family and friends updated as to what we're experiencing. We're all three quite excited about our upcoming trip. We have about 20 days left before we leave port in Seattle. We're all in various stages of packing and double checking our lists to make sure we have all that was suggested we bring. Then to weigh those bags to make sure we don't have to pay overweight luggage fees!
Aunt Colene and Roxie will fly from OKC to Denver on June 11th, I'll drive in and we'll all spend the night with Joe and Darlene. We'll fly from Denver to Seattle on June 12th to get to the ship which is scheduled to leave Pier 91 at 4:00 pm.
All day Sunday, through Monday morning we'll be at sea.
Well, I guess that's all for now.