ALASKA CRUISE 2008 - Day 2 At Sea

Since we start adjusting to a 2-hr time change and our stateroom was in the middle of the ship, we slept until 10 AM (8AM Central). WOW...when you have an inside stateroom it's pitch-dark all the time and you could sleep the day away. We set our alarm after that. Breakfast in the Windjammer cafe....all you can eat...everything you can imagine that belongs on a breakfast table. One of my favs is the fruit! The rest of the day was spent exploring the ship. We wanted to just camp out on the prominade or top decks outside, but the temperature (while the ship was moving) was probably about 30 degrees maybe colder. We weren't conditioned for that yet. Took a glorious nap that afternoon and we were well on our way to relaxing after that.

It was FORMAL night in the Edelweiss Dining Room which means break-out the evening gowns and tuxes (though Kyle and I went reserved this time). Every night on the menu there were about 3 choices of great Alaskan seafood that always included Salmon. Halibut was featured a couple of times and we had "butter fish" one night...tastes like chicken! One night, Lobster was on the menu which was awesome. Kyle and I learned a couple of cruises ago to like escargo (snails). So, he ordered that appetizer one night. The highlight for me was the appetizers on this cruise...they were the best. Dessert this cruise was good, but not my favorite.

Day 2 Evening entertainment in the Broadway Melodies Theater was and impressionist and comic, Fred Travalena. To our amazement, we had seen Fred before on TV. In the 70's we was a guest on almost all the variety shows, Carol Burnett, Johnny Carson, etc. His impersonations were remarkable! He's quite the story-teller, too. Loved it!

By 10PM, we were out on the deck (still daylight) and seeing some awesome snow-capped mountains come into view. Before the cruise, I knew we would head into a time zone with more daylight hours than dark....but it is true. If it's not dark, you don't get tired. Each night we were up and going past midnight or 1 AM quite a bit. I loved that part. And, 1AM in Alaska is 3AM Central time. So keeping those kinds of hours for 7 days made coming back to Missouri (CST) a bit tough.