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Greetings from the mouth of Endicott Arm/Dawes Glacier! It's an overcast, lightly foggy day, but I'm hoping some of it burns off before we reach Dawes Glacier.
It's still beautiful. Today shall be a much needed chill day, where we can relax and enjoy sipping hot cocoa on the veranda and freeze our buns off. It's going to be glorious. Then, at 4:30, we shall go to get our pictures taken, as it is fancy night. I want plenty of pictures of this journey.
At 5:30, we have our renewal of vows, which is sure to be a lot of fun, and beautiful and meaningful. The vows they offered were absolutely wonderful, and we stuck with them. The captain will come down and mingle and do the ceremony. Then, there will be cake (Vanilla cake with vanilla icing and raspberry filling.). Then, it's off to Morimoto by Sea for what will hopefully be an excellent meal. Then, probably back tot he suite to relax and digest.
Tomorrow is our last port, Ketchikan, and I'm a little sad about that. Alaska has been so beautiful, and I have loved every minute of it.
Yesterday was a busy day, filled with shopping and then the train that took us 20miles into the mountains. The seats were incredibly tiny and uncomfortable as hell, but the views took your breath away. Or that could have been the 2,850 elevation we reached.
It was very interesting and informative, and as stated, utterly beautiful. There were places on the mountain that they'd plowed, and the snow was stacked up over my head.
It was very lovely, and despite the bruise on my thigh from pressing into my seat, it was worth it.
We also did some hardcore shopping for souvenirs, and brought home a lot of touristy stuff.
Then it was back to the boat for a quiet night. First we stopped to get some food, and then went up and relaxed until it was time for our exceedingly fancy dinner at the Pinnacle Grill. My starter was a Dungeness and crabmeat salad, with a siracha aioli artfully decorating the plate. It was excellent. Next was beef short rib with chow fun noodles. It was an enormous and so good. Of course, we tried each other's food. Jess had a very good prime rib, and my sister had the steak and lobster. For dessert, I had a Chocolate and Stroopwaffle cobbler. It was like a warm, barely cooked brownie and was so chocolately and wonderful. We finished off with some delicious macarons.
Then we went back to the suite and watched the sun slip below the mountains.
It was breathtaking.
Afterwards, we saw some seals playing by the boat, and the night was made. Then I slept hard until 6:44am, just in time for coffee to arrive.
Now I shall go forth and get dressed. Our food steward apologized, but the Dutch coffee did not taste right to him, so we have American coffee, and it'a a little weak, so I may go down to the Neptune Lounge and get a cappuccino. Everyone have an wonderful Wednesday!
It's still beautiful. Today shall be a much needed chill day, where we can relax and enjoy sipping hot cocoa on the veranda and freeze our buns off. It's going to be glorious. Then, at 4:30, we shall go to get our pictures taken, as it is fancy night. I want plenty of pictures of this journey.
At 5:30, we have our renewal of vows, which is sure to be a lot of fun, and beautiful and meaningful. The vows they offered were absolutely wonderful, and we stuck with them. The captain will come down and mingle and do the ceremony. Then, there will be cake (Vanilla cake with vanilla icing and raspberry filling.). Then, it's off to Morimoto by Sea for what will hopefully be an excellent meal. Then, probably back tot he suite to relax and digest.
Tomorrow is our last port, Ketchikan, and I'm a little sad about that. Alaska has been so beautiful, and I have loved every minute of it.
Yesterday was a busy day, filled with shopping and then the train that took us 20miles into the mountains. The seats were incredibly tiny and uncomfortable as hell, but the views took your breath away. Or that could have been the 2,850 elevation we reached.
It was very interesting and informative, and as stated, utterly beautiful. There were places on the mountain that they'd plowed, and the snow was stacked up over my head.
It was very lovely, and despite the bruise on my thigh from pressing into my seat, it was worth it.
We also did some hardcore shopping for souvenirs, and brought home a lot of touristy stuff.
Then it was back to the boat for a quiet night. First we stopped to get some food, and then went up and relaxed until it was time for our exceedingly fancy dinner at the Pinnacle Grill. My starter was a Dungeness and crabmeat salad, with a siracha aioli artfully decorating the plate. It was excellent. Next was beef short rib with chow fun noodles. It was an enormous and so good. Of course, we tried each other's food. Jess had a very good prime rib, and my sister had the steak and lobster. For dessert, I had a Chocolate and Stroopwaffle cobbler. It was like a warm, barely cooked brownie and was so chocolately and wonderful. We finished off with some delicious macarons.
Then we went back to the suite and watched the sun slip below the mountains.
It was breathtaking.
Afterwards, we saw some seals playing by the boat, and the night was made. Then I slept hard until 6:44am, just in time for coffee to arrive.
Now I shall go forth and get dressed. Our food steward apologized, but the Dutch coffee did not taste right to him, so we have American coffee, and it'a a little weak, so I may go down to the Neptune Lounge and get a cappuccino. Everyone have an wonderful Wednesday!
