Mountain Goats in Glacier Bay

Moose Glacier Bay

Seals in Glacier Bay

Ketchikan

Becky Bill and I at World Cruise Cocktail party

Ketchikan Alaska

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Sorry I didn't get this up last night but was exhausted.  Busy busy day.

I started with a few photos of Glacier Bay I just couldn't resist adding more.  We were in Ketchikan yesterday and unlike the beautiful sunshine in Glacier Bay it was overcast and cold.  But I must say we were very lucky with the sun the day before so it was a trade off. 

Ketchikan was a cute little town.  Across from the pier are all jewelry shops which if it was sunny and warm you would have thought you were in the Caribean.  They were not open as we were the first cruise ship into town and they will not open for 3 or more weeks when the cruise ships start to come into town.  We did go into quite a few stores that were opened.

We went through customs before the ship was even cleared and got off early with our two boxes that we were shipping one to the AZ house and one to the NY house.  The port agent called us a cab and off we went to post these packages!  The cab driver pointed out all the interesting sights and after we sent the packages we walked all around the town for a few hours.  

We were going to have lunch off ship but the chowder place didn't have anything for me to eat so we headed to the ship and just made lunch.

The sun came out just as we were getting ready to sail.

Last night there was a World Cruise Event called Gold Rush Saloon,  there was a cocktail party in the Palm Court first with your choice of drink and popcorn.  The Neptune pool was decorated to look like a saloon.  There were even the swinging doors.  The entertainment staff did an outstanding job as usual.  The food was delicious as was the company at our table!

When we returned to our room there were two blue Tiffany boxes one for Bill and one for me.  Mine was a lovely silver pendant with the World Cruise Logo engraved on it.  Bill's was a lovely leather card case.

What a great end to a great day.

We did have to put our clocks ahead one hour and it was after 1am when I finally went to sleep.  No time to post this last night.

I will post later about our cruising the Inside Passage today!

More pictures later!!!!!