What an exciting day! Today we boarded the boat. But before we could do that we had a little time at the hotel. We took a walk around with the girls to burn off some of their excited energy and found some beautiful flowers.
Then, we had a brief worship service in Memaw and Datt's hotel room before our drivers arrived to take us to the port.
Our ship is beautiful and big! It took a little time to get through all the steps necessary before boarding, but that all went very smoothly.
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| Star Princess |
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| Excited to finally be on the ship! |
We found our room easily enough. Our girls are very excited about sleeping on the top bunks.
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I forgot to take a picture of our room, so here is Annie and Caroline
in theirs. Ours looked exactly the same. |
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| Flowers Memaw and Datt gave to each family |
We made our way to find some lunch followed by the mandatory ice cream.
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| Ella |
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| Emma |
We then set off to find the kids' play area and get the girls registered. They had some fun playing around in there before it was time for the emergency drill.
It was finally time to set sail. We enjoyed watching the sail away party, and watching Seattle shrink from view as we headed out to Alaska.
The girls really wanted to go swimming, but the indoor pool was completely filled at over 4 feet deep. But Daddy agreed to go with them. A great ending to another great day!
It was a cold and wet touristy kind of day. We pulled into port at Ketchikan, Alaska this morning. What a beautiful town!
We took a walking tour of Totem Bight, followed by a logger show. Totem Bight is a State Historical Park dedicated to preservation of the art of totem poles. They have some very old totem poles as well has some which are still being carved. It was all very interesting and fun, only slighly hampered by the rain and cold temperatures (we are in Alaska, you know).
