Cruising Gulf of Alaska
Thursday, April 12, 2012
This morning was a “Back of the house tour”. We met at the Bridge and right after Captain Glen gave his morning update we were escorted into the Bridge. Capt. Glen explained how most of the equipment works and Bill was speaking with the Vice Captain. First thing Bill did was pick up Captain Glen’s binoculars and spotted a whale! We were broken up into groups our group had only 6! After our tour of the Bridge we followed Julie one of the entertainers on the ship into elevators for the crew only. Now I know how I could be speaking with Rick, head up to Galaxy and he is already there!
We then took a tour behind the stage of the theater to see all the costumes and dressing rooms. It looks like a dry cleaners back there. They have the motorized rack where all the gowns and costumes are hanging. My they are really heavy!
After our back stage tour, we headed down to deck four. Here we saw the crew’s quarters, gym, bar, bistro. Then we saw the Officer’s dining room and bar. After deck 4 we headed down steps to deck 2! We saw the laundry room, tailor/reupholstery shop, kitchen where the chief engineer was cutting meat, the head housekeeper was peeling carrots and the storage area where all the pallets of non perishable food comes onto the ship.
It was a great tour and we really enjoyed seeing behind the scenes!
After all the walking they figured we would be hungry so we headed to the Starlight Lounge were they had waffles set up for us. They had everything imaginable to but with them. Syrup, fruit, chocolate sauce, carmel sauce, butterscotch sauce, nuts. They also had coffee, tea and juice.
We finished our breakfast in time to get to the lecture given today by Mary Matalin and James Carvelle. They were quite a pair! I had a lot of trouble understanding him with his deep southern accent!
We headed to the “office” (bistro) and met up with Kris, Betty, Becky, Pat and Ray. We sat and spoke with them for a few minutes and the Betty, Kris, Bill and I went to lunch. Bill wanted to make sure he had enough time for the lecture by General Hugh Shelton. I am still trying to figure out where the day went before we knew it, it was time to change for dinner and head to the show. Tonight was Neptune night and since I can’t eat seafood and I don’t eat fish I was wondering what I was going to eat. When we entered the dining room Augusto greeted us with a frown and said “We have a problem” I replied, “What did you give our table away” He said “No, come with me. Since the menu is heavy with fish I made you a special pasta, with fried eggplant. It was sensational!!!!! Tomorrow we will be sailing Glacier Bay and it should be sensational. If you are reading this in the am go to the Crystal Cruises website and hit live views for the Serenity and follow along,
We have a special dinner tomorrow evening in Prego will report on that tomorrow.
Good night!
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