We had breakfast delivered to our room this morning. It was good, but the room service breakfast menu is rather limited. In particular, there’s evidently no soymilk on board, which means that Chris and Annie are limited to pastries and bananas. Ken and I had Raisin Bran, fruit plates, milk, and tea.
The tea led to a bit of a mixup, as I forgot that we had ordered tea. I was reminded when I poured plain hot water into my coffee cup. Oops—what was that? Fortunately we have a small coffeepot in our room, so I got my coffee fix.
We all went to a 9:15 a.m. presentation on Alaska history. Richard, one of the staff members, used a Powerpoint presentation. It was brief and very superficial, but still worthwhile. I got a better sense of the relative positions of the cities we will stop at, which are all down at the southeastern part of the state on a narrow strip. They are spread out along the coastline, with British Columbia bordering the inland side of the strip.
Afterward we went to the duty free gift shop to look for a lanyard for Annie, which we found. She doesn't have pockets in many of her clothes, and we all need to carry our key cards at all times. The shops are open only when we are at sea in international waters, and they were packed this morning. Ken decided to stay and browse, while Chris and Annie and I went to the library to read (and in my case, compute).
We’ve all felt really disconnected from our 24/7 connection to the Internet. We regularly ask questions and then realize that we can’t just Google everything, darn it! The presenter of the Alaska history program suggested that we could learn more by checking Google or Wikipedia. Right, if we were willing to spend the big bucks for Internet access on board ship.
We ate lunch at the Garden Café, the main buffet. It turned out to have a really good salad bar. We all walked around the jogging track on deck 13 and did some more exploring. We enjoyed visiting the bridge viewing room. In addition to watching the crew, we saw a very detailed scale model of the ship and a video of its construction.
Chris and I attended a presentation billed as “30,000 Years of Art.” It jumped directly from cave paintings to the Renaissance. The main point of the show appeared to be promotion of the onboard art auction and sales. One of the featured artists is Thomas Kincaid, and his name is given the same prominence as Picasso’s.
We had dinner at the Summer Palace, which we chose because there was live music—piano instrumentals. While we waiting for our pager to beep, we went to the Garden Café and had another salad. We had a delicious dinner, but during it we noticed that the ship was rolling back and forth in the water with way more apparent motion than before. Fortunately it settled down quickly. Two highlights of our meal were the pumpkin arugula salad and the cheesecake with strawberry compote.
Tonight we went to a magic and comedy performance by Jeff Hobson, who has appeared in Vegas. His show was hilarious. Even Annie was laughing. Afterward we played Perquacky for a while before heading for bed.
We’re moving into a new time zone tonight, so we gain an hour. A cute note to that effect was waiting for us when we returned to our room, propped up on a cute towel elephant.
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