The Holland America cruise from Seward to Vancouver,
BC, was wonderful. If I were wealthy, I would live on cruise ships, changing
ships now and then and going to different ports all the time. (sigh)
All of the food was really good, but I mostly ate soups,
salads, rolls and butter, and desserts. On previous cruises, I have eaten
bacon and watermelon for breakfast every day. On this cruise, I reluctantly omitted the
bacon. They always had two soups for
lunch and three soups for dinner, one of which would be a cold soup. They had
big bowls of matchstick-cut jicama and radishes, and I ate plates full of both
at lunch and dinner. There weren’t as many different desserts on this cruise,
but a choice of 10 different desserts, including ice cream, was perfectly
adequate. Susan and I ate every meal at the lido restaurant (buffet), and it
was basically the same menus as what was available in the regular dining room –
except we didn’t have lobster tail at the buffet like they had one night in the
dining room.
The entertainment was fun -- comedians, singers, dancers, lots of music. Susan went to movies while I went to the live shows.
We didn’t go on any excursions. Susan walked
around the towns we stopped at. Sometimes I didn’t even get off the ship. I had
been on excursions at every port when my sister and I went on an Alaska cruise several
years ago. One thing I didn’t do then that I wish I had was to take the tram to
the top of Mt. Roberts in Juneau – so I did do that this time – and it was
great.
Just south of Vancouver, I saw mile after mile of
greenhouses. A Google search produced the following information: http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/aboutind/products/plant/grnh_veg.htm
On that Web site, it said, “Crops grown in a greenhouse can yield up to ten
times as much as crops grown in the field.” Who knew??!!
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| Our cabin steward left a sting ray..... |
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| an elephant...... |
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| a dog....... |
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| and....is that a monkey? |
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| Our cabin, looking toward the window |
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| and looking toward the door. |
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| I meet a new friend atop Mr. Roberts, |
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| and another friend -- a hoary marmot. |
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| I love just looking out the window. |
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| Susan ordered a midnight snack from room service. |
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| And breakfast from room service. |
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| She accidentally ordered two breakfasts. |
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| I don't know what she ate. I was at the buffet eating watermelon. |
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| A floating fuel stop for planes and boats in Vancouver. |
Seattle is next.
Thanks for reading,
Charlotte
