Quilting Cruise Part 2

 

Glacier Bay

     We flew out to Seattle the day before our cruise and were able to enjoy a nice sunny day walking around the city.  The next day when we boarded it was still sunny and nice, we enjoyed our first meal by the pool looking out on the harbor.

My first lunch

     The next day was a day at sea and the first part of my quilting class.  It was overcast and rough seas, I wound up getting seasick as did several of the others in my class.  The next day was better for the second part of my class.  We arrived in Juneau just after lunch time.  It was cool and drizzly, sometimes raining more.  We did a bit of shopping and walking around town.  John did find a couple of geocaches.  We went on a Segway tour on an Alpine meadow trail.  It was really pretty despite the drizzle.

Alpine meadow

Alpine meadow

     The next day we cruised around in Glacier Bay.  It was a sunny but cold day.  I was glad to have a balcony in our room so I could go in and out to see the sights and then get warm again.  That evening we pulled into Icy Strait Point where we had booked a Sky Peak Gondola ride and a ZipRider adventure.  It was warmer there so it was nice to walk around.  The zip line was really tall and they sent us down six at a time!  

Glacier Bay

Glacier Bay

The ZipRider

     The next day was once again cool and overcast as we pulled into Sitka, Alaska's oldest city.  We toured a raptor center that rehabbed injured birds.  Unfortunately not all were able to be released back into the wild so they had quite a few for us to observe.  Then we walked through the rain forest back to the city.  We saw many, many salmon trying to swim upstream to spawn.

Rain forest walk

Low tide in Sitka

     The next stop was Ketchikan, the salmon capital of the world.  There we took a duck tour to see the sights and learn more about the city.  We tried to find a geocache there also, but couldn't find it.  We did get to walk around quite a bit looking for it.  Did a bit of shopping before enjoying a dinner at one of the nicer restaurants on board the ship.  

Enjoying the duck tour

Our ship from another pier

     The last day was a foggy day at sea.  Couldn't really see anything but at least the seas weren't too bad.  We wound up getting into port in Canada so late, all shore excursions were canceled.  Because the weather was so bad, we didn't even get off the boat.

Canada

     We pulled into the Seattle port early the next morning.  It was a smooth transfer back to the airport with the cruise line taking care of our checked luggage for us.  The ship, the Eurodam, was nice and so very clean.  The food was good though some things were only so-so.  We enjoyed the shows almost every night.  It was fun meeting other quilters and our dinner conversations were so fun.