Day at Sea (1)

Hi everyone,

Today was our first day at sea!  We did quite a few on-board activities, including:

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Morning Stretch (me).  It’s a great way to start the day.  Especially if you’re still sore from a ridiculous amount of flight time.  Takes a bit of extra thought to work through the “stretching while on a moving boat” thing, but so far, I have not gone careening into another cruiser.

Watercolor (me).  This was surprisingly awesome.  The “artist in residence” (Enda) is from Vancouver, by way of Estonia.  We’re doing a series of Alaskan scenes (I’d upload a picture of my painting, but pictures are taking ages to upload, and again… $.79 per minute, man).  I’ve never tried watercolors before, and I really liked it (and appreciate anything that can be reasonably completed in 30 minutes.

  Trivia (we).  There were three trivia sessions during our first day of sea, and the theme of trivia so far (spoiler alert) is: WE MISS MIKE AND IVY!  We did not do especially well (no life changing prizes for us), but we had a good time.

Broadway on the High Seas.  A compilation of Broadway numbers, including a Les Mis-Miss Saigon mashup (weird), a newbie dancer dropping a less newbie dancer (whoops), aerialists (who totally stole the show), and a Hairspray Finale ( <3>

We also booked our excursion for Icy Straight Point, which is a fairly new port for Alaskan cruises.  We opted for a kayak tour.  We get into Icy Straight Point at 3:00 pm, and we’re there until 9:30 pm.

And, because this was something that we (Troy) had spent a lot of time working through contingency plans for, we watched game 6 of the Stanley Cup.  It was playing in the staterooms, and also (maybe?) in the casino bar.  We went to the casino bar, but there wasn’t any audio, so we watched in the stateroom, and punctuated the periods with snacks and excessively large margaritas.  Again, I’d post a picture, because it really was very large.  Obviously, at this point it’s not a spoiler, but the Blackhawks won, 2-0, I teared up a little bit when they were passing around the Cup, and the revels continued far into the night (especially in Chicago).

A very good day in Alaska J

Catherine

P.S. I will go back and add pictures to all of these.  When the internet isn’t $.79 per minute, man.