Homer- DOH

Homer July 16th

Today, Jessica and I rented crew bikes from the ship. Luckily it was a really warm day, so bike riding was the perfect thing to do. We biked around for about an hour and then we stopped to get some coffee at this adorable coffee shop that sold things from Peru. I thought it was sort of funny that I was just in Peru, and now, in alaska, I see the same knitted hats from lima. Life circles, doesn’t it? We sat in the coffee shop, wrote a song, and continued on our journey.

After that, we biked further into town, and we stopped in the yarn yurt. It literally was a yurt. The women who owned the store were just precious and it was aptly named “Commu-knitty stash”. We got to knit a giant thing of duct tape too. With huge plastic pipes. Sounds weird I know, it was awesome though. My good friend Anya, (our awesome librarian) got me addicted to knitting. It’s quite relaxing for me :) However, knitting is no longer allowed for crew members! We actually got in trouble for knitting! Oh well, now we must form an underground knitting club :) haha of all things!

After our stop at the yarn store, we stopped to take a look at the yurt next to it. There was this really friendly man there. Such an Alaskan (grey long beard and a hat and dirty jeans) He was carving ivory and enjoying the day. He began to talk to Jess and I about our spirit animals. He asked if he was getting too deep, and we both said “are you kidding?” we are studying so much about spirits and natural healing right now. It was amazing to hear these words randomly brought up in conversation. He was talking about bears and the nature of them and if you feel a connection with a certain animal, you should really research their patterns and relate them to your life. I have always been in love with sparrows. I think the sparrow is my spirit animal. Whenever I see them, I connect to them. And jess connects to bears. Also, we are thinking of our band name, and jess dreamt the band name “sparrowbear” I think it works :) So watch out world, sparrowbear is on it’s way! He was so cool, I am thankful we met him. 

We then biked to the street faire, and saw some belly dancers perform and a guitarist. 

It was such a pleasant day, and this entire cruise has been gorgeous. How lucky are we???