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 The Inside Passage of Alaska

Hurricane Ivan was very kind to us and just blew through Alabama. Birmingham airport was backed up on Friday, but come saturday morning all was on time. We met at Seattle airport, dropped our bags off with the cruise people and off to the boat we went. The boat (photos in a day or so) holds 1900 passengers and about the same number of crew. It is quite the sight.

We started off with a mandatory lifeboat drill. Everyone wears their life vests and stands under their assigned life boat.

After a great dinner we went back to our room where the beds had already been prepared, the luggage was delivered to our door. It was an early evening,

 DAY 2

 

Our first day at port was spent in Juneau Alaska. It was a cold nasty rainy day. We started our day by walking the deck, exercising and spending about an hour in the hot tub. The weather was so cold, that we did not get overheated in the hot tub. We did get a lot of looks about being crazy. It was actually great, until we had to run from the hot tub to the towels. Now that was cold.

We had what we thought was adequate outer wear, but it wasn't even close. We got soaked and wet, but we had quite the adventure. This is not our ship, it is the view from our ship.

Downtown Juneau. We spent the day walking in the rain and shopping. We have finished all of our souvenier shopping. We found a nice little restaurant/cafe off the beaten track where we had excellent Salmon sandwiches and salmon chowder. yum, yum.

 Lounging on the deck as we wait for our next exercise class

 Day 3

SkagwayDay 3 was our BIG adventure. We had schedule our one outing to see the glacier TODAY. We arrived at Skagway Alaska at 0700. We got to see the town and mountains as we did our morning mile walk around the ship.

Other views from the ship included the Fjord we were traveling down to see our glacier and a glacier on top of the closest mountian.

It promised to be a windy day. Knowing we were not going to eat anytime soon, we had a hearty breakfast.
 

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