Sarah's Horrible, Not Very Nice, No-Good Day

Argh. Today by far has been the worst day of my trip. First, I left my passport, camera charger, binoculars, and camera flash at the hotel in Homer, which I discovered about 3 hours away from Homer. I'd taken all of that stuff out of my bag so I could carry a larger bag with my extra lens on the plane/bear trip, and I'd tucked them away so they would be out of the way. Unfortunately, they were TOO out of the way. So a phone call back to the Highliner House, and our nice hostess is going to mail my stuff to Erin's in Juneau for me. Luckily, I shouldn't need any of it except my camera charger until Juneau (and a camera shop in Anchorage was able to sell me a new charger to get me through).

Then, we stop to check into the Copper Whale Inn, which I've been looking forward to the entire trip, only to find out they don't have our reservations. What ?!?! I've gotten confirmations and have already been charged for teh rooms, but they can't find us in the system. They send us over to another hotel (not as nice but good location), and promise to figure out how the snafu occurred. We go off to explore Anchorage and grab a delicious dinner at Orso, including a lovely Sangiovese wine named Sara. Perfect for helping my bad mood.

However, after being back at the hotel for a few minues (and learning about the big Cubs trade!), we get a call from the front desk that the Copper Whale has figured out the problem, which is that they booked us for JUNE instead of JULY. I know when I spoke with the innkeeper in March we'd discussed July, but the confirmation did indeed say June when I pulled it up on my email, and I hadn't caught it. ARGH. I have no idea how all of my other reservations are correctly for July, and I didn't catch this one.

This has not turned out to be a very good day. Did I mention I was a bit car sick on my trip from Homer to Anchorage? And that I'm currently on a lobby computer in our decent but not great substitute hotel, and the desk clerk is incessently talking loudly to herself?

:(