Alaska 2010 – Day 10 – At Sea
by Jay on Jul.16, 2010, under Alaska 2010, General, Vacation
After letting go the lined in St. Paul’s Harbour, the Captain and local pilot maneuvered the ship back out through the entrance channel and into the Chiniak Bay. Once safely clear of the channel, we disembarked our local pilot and Royal Princess once again entered the Gulf of Alaska. Following an easterly course, we will make our way back towards Cape Spencer in North East Alaska.
This morning we slept in until 7:30AM, which is the latest yet. Tomorrow we need to be off the ship by 8:00AM so we may want to get a wake-up call. I am dreading getting home and having to wake up at 6:00AM after being 4 hours behind normal time. I’m sure I’ll make do. Anyways, today we walked/jogged 5 kilometers for Breast Cancer research. This is something that Princess does on every cruise, and Heather and I started doing it on our previous trip. It’s something that we plan on doing on every cruise, both because it’s for a good cause as well as it’s great excercise. I should add that I had a chocolate chip cookie prior to the jog. The weather changed during it, which it seems to do quite quickly in Alaska, and we were out in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska all day. We are still out here, though getting closer to our next destination: Skagway. I’ve been to Skagway twice already, and we’re repeating the excursion that we did in 1988, going on a narrow gauge railroad on the trails that the gold rushers did back when they were searching for gold. I remember enjoying it, and as I really love trains, I’m looking forward to it. How did I get off topic again?
It’s probably because I didn’t do a whole lot today. After the walk, we had breakfast (French Toast, Bacon, Oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar), then I fought with the Internet for a few hours, but I did get caught up with my posts. The annoying part is actually uploading the photographs. My photos are all about 15MB in size, so I first edit them in Picassa, straighten them, crop them, and touch them up, then I export them as smaller images so they become about .5MB and ready to upload into my log. After this, I connect to the Internet and usually get mad at it because we go through a cloud or something and the connection gets cut. I joke about the cloud, but I really have no idea what’s causing the disconnect. I just know that most cruises aren’t this bad, so I’m guessing it’s our location as well as the mountains that we’re usually around. Heather and I had a nice lunch at the very stern of the ship, as far back as you can go, and watched the wake as we moved along. She went and watched Alice in Wonderland this afternoon as I rested. For dinner I had Spaghetti and meatballs, as well as Prociutto and cantaloupe; one of my favorites. The food is always amazing on Princess, and I think it’s even better than normal this trip. So now we’re waiting to see yet another comedian. So far they’ve been really good, so I’m hoping this one will be as well. After this they are having a Champagne waterfall, where they stack Champagne glasses up in a pyramid and pour the Champagne throughout it. If we make it there, it will be the first sip of alcohol that we’ve had this trip. I’m not sure if we will though as we need to get up so early tomorrow. The next two days should be rather amazing, especially if the weather stays nice.
It’s probably because I didn’t do a whole lot today. After the walk, we had breakfast (French Toast, Bacon, Oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar), then I fought with the Internet for a few hours, but I did get caught up with my posts. The annoying part is actually uploading the photographs. My photos are all about 15MB in size, so I first edit them in Picassa, straighten them, crop them, and touch them up, then I export them as smaller images so they become about .5MB and ready to upload into my log. After this, I connect to the Internet and usually get mad at it because we go through a cloud or something and the connection gets cut. I joke about the cloud, but I really have no idea what’s causing the disconnect. I just know that most cruises aren’t this bad, so I’m guessing it’s our location as well as the mountains that we’re usually around. Heather and I had a nice lunch at the very stern of the ship, as far back as you can go, and watched the wake as we moved along. She went and watched Alice in Wonderland this afternoon as I rested. For dinner I had Spaghetti and meatballs, as well as Prociutto and cantaloupe; one of my favorites. The food is always amazing on Princess, and I think it’s even better than normal this trip. So now we’re waiting to see yet another comedian. So far they’ve been really good, so I’m hoping this one will be as well. After this they are having a Champagne waterfall, where they stack Champagne glasses up in a pyramid and pour the Champagne throughout it. If we make it there, it will be the first sip of alcohol that we’ve had this trip. I’m not sure if we will though as we need to get up so early tomorrow. The next two days should be rather amazing, especially if the weather stays nice.No comments for this entry yet...
