Back in Seattle

Well, getting up the morning of day 8 was pretty uneventful. We'd put our luggage out the night before to be collected for off loading. All we had was our carry on's. We went and had breakfast in the main dining room. Nothing much, just some cereal in my case. It was then just sitting and waiting for our turn to disembark. We finally walked off the ship some time between 10 and 10:30 that morning. I was ready to walk back on the instant I walked off. I thoroughly enjoyed myself!

Well, we'd planned all along to stay a couple of extra days in Seattle to explore a bit. The place we stayed was over looking the public market. What a neat place! It has a little bit of everything, from fresh seafood to fresh produce, to fresh cut flowers to any little nick nack that you can think of, as well as several restaurants. We spent a lot of time just roaming in it. As a matter of fact that's what we did most of the first day back in Seattle. I've got info and will definitely be ordering some fresh seafood from some of the vendors. I left a few dollars there as it is. If Cincinnati ever got it's butt in gear and cleaned up Over-The-Rhine Findley Market and the area around it could be very similar.

Well, my pics are almost at an end. I'll post a few more in the next day or 2 and that'll be it for mine. I'll post a few of my parents and my brothers pics at some point as well.

Pics include the Totem pole in Seattle's main square, a couple of the market and some from a bay sight seeing cruise we took (including the Seattle P. I. Paper with the needle in the back ground, a pic of where the building that Frazier lived in would be if it really existed- his apartment would have been about where the tops of the red and white radio towers are, another skyline view and some really nice guy).

More YUM and Day 7 - Victoria

Pics include more of the midnight buffet (including some the sculptures made with butter and wax, some of the fabulous food, and some sculptures made from various fruits and vegetables), the port at Victoria and Mt Baker (I didn't get many pics of Victoria as I was out fishing all day and the pics of the fishing trip have not yet been developed. I'll be posting some of my parents pics of some the sights in Victoria later), others are the curtain in the theater, our waiter Anthony, and the entire wait staff.

More Icy Strait Point/Hoonah and Day 6 - YUM

Pics include a rather handsome guy (if I do say so myself), a replica of a net rig, the ferry, part of the old cannery and fishing boats, towel pet 5, the chefs and cooking staff, towel pet 6, and then various pics of the midnight buffet.

We were at sea on day 6, and I got up and went for a jog on one of the treadmills. It's a good thing too. Food for this day was the best yet. Dinner offered lobster tails, as many as you wanted. I had 2 on top of the fabulous soups and shrimp cocktail (of course). That was just the start though. As I said, this was midnight buffet night and boy did I enjoy it. I can't begin to tell you what all I had, but I can tell you that I filled my plate to the max with all sorts of goodies from chocolate covered strawberries, to an astounding fruit filled and iced cake. It was a good thing that I jogged that morning, because by the time I went to bed I couldn't eat another bite. Oh did I enjoy myself though! I'll be posting more pics of the buffet tomorrow.

Bidding Skagway Farewell and Day 5 - Hoonah

Pics include the entire wait staff, some scenes the evening we left Skagway (including a group of sea lions, and another glacier), the days towel pet, the ship as we go ashore in Icy Strait Point/Hoonah, Part of the original salmon cannery, and my family.

More Skagway

Pics include other ships in dock, the "tags" painted on the moutain side by ships that have docked there, scenes from our ride in the White Pass train (including some local bowling ball art, one of the famous old engines, the US Customs building, and inside the car), and downtown Skagway.

I had another whole roll of pics from the train ride which included some moutain goats, the boarder marker and things around it, the "Black Cross Stone" and the original bridge which is an historical land mark. Unfortunately, this role was the worst of all and bearly turned out. This was quite disappointing.