Wednesday, August 29, 2007


Happy 49th Anniversary Mom and Dad
We went to the buffet this morning for breakfast. This time we had the waffles on the outside deck and were they good. Covered in strawberry and whipped cream. Yummm. Linda played bingo and I did a scavenger hunt with the kids. We raced around the ship for 45 minutes trying to get various items like a toothpick, autographs of staff, safety pin, postcard, birthday card etc.. Well we did excellent but arrived 4 minutes late and were disqualified. I was disappointed but mostly just sweaty and hot from all that running around. Well it was time for lunch in the buffet and then off to Ketchikan. There were 4 other ships at port so we had to tender in and wait for one of them to leave before the ship docked. Tendering was easy and fast. Mom accidently went to the wrong location and I once again found myself running for another 45 minutes up and down, front to back looking for her.


We didn’t know what to do so we hired 2 cabs for the 10 of us for $200 for an hour and a half tour of the town and rainforest. Being from Vancouver and a camper, seeing a rainforest isn’t the top of my list. The totem poles around the park were 150 years old and cool but it was raining and we didn’t stay long. Our first and only experience of rain. One of the highlights of the tour was visiting the smallest Wal-Mart. The tour guides thought we were freaks having them pull into a Wal-Mart so John and I could do a photo-op. We also had them take us to the fire dept. so John could buy a shirt. The tour was OK – I wish we did the Duck bus/boat tour instead as the kids were bored in the taxi vans. The town was small but neat. The creek street shopping area was quaint. All the shops on stilts around a creek. The creek was fast moving with tons of salmon swimming up it and we even saw a seal swimming with them having a nice salmon lunch. We took a tram ride up the side of a cliff to go for a beer up top. I dragged Carter around a few shops and picked up another 6 pack for the boat. We went into a bar and as long as Carter didn’t sit at a stool in the bar, he could come in. That’s a great rule I wish Vancouver would adopt.
I think you need to spend the big bucks and go on a float place to see the whales and bears. Unfortunately, we didn't have the resources to do that but that's the way to go in Ketchikan.

We had another fabulous dinner and the staff sang Happy Anniversary to my parents. I had some prime rib beef dinner with Yorkshire pudding which was done to perfection. Just love it when the meat melts in your mouth and you don’t really have to chew even. We saw the evening show and it was hilarious. The comedian told cruise jokes for 45 minutes. Making fun of cruising and the Alaska ports – we laughed non stop. Linda put the kids to bed and I went out with my mom to the casino and then to the main dining room at 12:15AM for the midnight spectacular food presentation. Everything was edible from the ice sculptures to animal shaped food and desserts. It took the staff 45 hours preparing for it. Chocolate dipped strawberrys that looked like mice, weird jello things, cheesecake and they had my new favorite food. Beef Wellington. Wow – I went back 2 more times and was so blown away by how delicious it all was. I wasn’t even hungry after our huge dinner. I then went to the nightclub where John and Shelly were and hung out there until 3:15AM.




















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