May 2, 2008 – 1st time around
My life is truly like Groundhog Day (the movie)…I will live the same day twice! Today we are crossing the International Date Line and tomorrow it will May 2nd all over again!
Two days ago we were in Petropavolsk, Russia. What a DISASTER! As one passenger said, “There’s no rushing the Russians.” We anchored in Petropavolsk around 6:30 in the morning. The crew all knew ahead of time that it was a crazy day and there was no crew shore leave due to lack of time and the fact that we had to tender over to the shore. We started the immigration process and the Russian’s took hours to look at people’s passports. We had passengers yelling at us left and right because they wanted to get off. Mind you, every Russian in the city was on board – it was like a Disneyworld just pulled up outside their city! But this immigration officers went through the Shore Excursions passports first, then moved on to the Independent’s. I was getting screamed at over and over again~ Truly, I don’t blame these people for being upset – If I paid the same thing as these other passengers on the excursions and couldn’t get off the ship until 2:30 P.M.!!!! Especially when the last tender left from shore at 5 p.m.
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