Griffin Family

  Wow, what a fun fast week!! Getting here was unbelievably awful but since the bad start, it’s been AMAZING!! First of all…weather…perfect! I carried my winter jacket all the way to northern Alaska and Canada and never even put it on!! Even more…no rain all week!! Sunny and beautiful every day!!  Even T-shirt weather most days!! We even went swimming and hot tubbing several times!! Sunday we made it to the ship without incident…took a shuttle and got in pretty quickly and easily. We got a wheelchair and special treatment due to gpa. Dad with his cane and Diane as well…we got the handicapped special treatment. Our room was nice…smaller than our last cruise (no couch) but comfy and well-kept. Our dude did up our room twice a day!!  We had an obstructed view but it was ok. I probably wouldn’t do that again.  It did help me to not want to be in the room too much which was good since we were wanting to do stuff with the family. Sunday we enjoyed the buffet and checked ou...

  Aaagh!!! We’re on our way to Seattle. We made it as far as SLC and had a four-hour layover. We got settled on the plane to Seattle and somehow I managed to get an empty next to me!! I put on a movie I’ve been wanting to see. The storied life of Aj Firky. 20 minutes delay. No biggie.  Then the dreaded…I’m sorry to announce that the pilot cannot make it and you will all need to deplane and reschedule your flight. Noooooooo!!!  The line was horrendous. Eldon and Diane managed to get in line earlier than us and we were supposed to get next. Seriously…next…when they announced we had to get in a different line. Our luggage was a problem that took two hours to resolve…actually three for Diane’s luggage and she didn’t even get hers back until the next morning. Kade Christensen - Physical Therapist Met on the plane - works with Starr Cooley Dad and Laura’s checked bags were sent to Seattle so they only had what they packed in their carry-on…which was not much!! We were given hot...

 Super busy week as I worked in the court all week. Melissa (the new girl that replaced Mindy) is on a cruise to Mexico and so I just moved my office upstairs and hung out with Ahriya (pronounced Are - e - ya) all week.  She is still pretty new and learning all of court from ground 0. She is 27 years old and recently got her marriage annulled because her return missionary, temple marriage husband got into porn, drinking, gambling and exploring women on the internet. She is really beautiful and also a return missionary and it's just tough cause she did everything you're supposed to and it just didn't go as planned. I think it was official last Wednesday or Thursday when I was working up there and she came out crying and gave me a big long hug. She is really sweet and we had a great week together.  That was certainly not what she thought would be happening at this stage in her life.  Since I was upstairs all week, Jeremy came up each day to say hi, check on things...