Highlights of the day:
- The ship's jogging track ran outside of the window of the restaurant where we had breakfast. While eating, we watched one gentleman repeatedly come cruising by. I saw him many more times over the course of the week, tagging him in my mind as 'the Marathon Man' as seemed to spend a considerable portion of the day just running.
- Meet & Greet with the people I met on the Cruise Critics bulletin board - nice folks all, and always nice to know someone, if nothing to say hi to in passing.
- Cocktails with the Captain, invited because we were booked in a suite. This was pretty much free champagne, free canape's and a thirty second photo op with the Captain. (Which the ship gladly sold us a copy of.)
- Crepes made to order in the buffet! Yum!
- Discovering a bar on deck 6 with a substantial menu of good scotches - which menu I would steadily work my through over the course of the week.
A fun, and dangerous thing was the virtually 24/7 access to food... It was very weird to just be able to walk up to the buffet, or sit down in a restaurant, get food, and then walk out when we were done. No worrying about the check, and tips were covered in our ticket.
The bulk of the day was spent out on deck admiring the scenery of the Inside Passage, and ducking inside when it got to be too cold. I regretted not buying a pullover hat as I had pondered before leaving, because my ears kept freezing. The ship's spa however was a wonderful place to hang out and get warm at the end of the day - the pass for the week was some of the best money we spent.
After a strenuous day of watching scenery, eating, drinking, and hanging out in the spa - we fell asleep on the couch watching Monster Vs. Aliens on the ship's TV. Over the course of the week, we'd encounter the first half hour of it at least a dozen times.
(As always, click on the pix to
make big.)
Misty Guardians
The trip through the Inside Passage was an ever changing panorama of islands, inlets, and distant misty mountains. Some would say the fog and mist obscured the view, I would say that they added a dimension of mystery that you'd never see on a sunny day.
Vanishing Point.
Serendipity - I didn't realize until looking at this photo after returning how the vanishing points *almost* converge. Annoyance - that I didn't see it than and make it so.
Strength in numbers.
Isolated islands clump together protectively against the cold and isolation - like a mother and her children.
Drama Club.
A few of the folks I talked to seemed to be disappointed by the cloudy day, I tried to appreciate the extra layers of drama Nature added to the show.
Three Worlds.
With apologies to M.C. Escher for the title, but somehow this image brought his etching to mind.
At the edge of the world.
The clouds, mists, and fogs of our journey through the Inside Passage created ever changing and ever enclosed vistas. Rather like wandering through a house and marveling over how each room was decorated.
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