ALASKA - DAY 1

We are home and now (mostly) ant free so I've had time to upload our pictures and begin thinking about writing a blog post for you. I'd love to get Andrew to write one too as it was his birthday present, but we'll see how that goes.

First off I want to say that our cruise in Alaska is amazing and I can well imagine that we lost social media friends through our excessive posting of amazing scenery. I'm afraid this blog post might not help either. Amazingly we didn't take thousands of photos like we usually do. I think there were two reasons for that; firstly it rained a fair amount and therefore we didn't want to keep the camera around too long as its not that waterproof and secondly I think we were too busy staring at all the amazing views to bother stopping to take photos. We did capture a fair amount on our iPhones so there will be some of those photos thrown in too.

Now onto the exciting stuff, what we actually did. Well at 6am on Andrew's 30th birthday we flew out of Los Angeles airport and up to Seattle. It was a crazily early time to fly but I didn't want any complications getting onto the boat if we had air travel issues. In the end we got there in plenty of time and having caught a train into the city centre we went about finding a good spot for a birthday brunch. 



It was a lovely place down near Pike Place market and we enjoyed just sitting and munching with no real rush. We don't do that often because we are usually on our way somewhere or we have Macintosh with us who doesn't sit still very well. So we loved it!

We then took a bus out to the cruise ship piers which was fairly straightforward but following the walkway down to the pier turned out not to be! Even so we made it there eventually and managed to get ourselves checked onto our ship, the ms Amsterdam. 



Once on board we had some time to explore before we started cruising out of the Puget Sound and away from Seattle. It was a gorgeously sunny day and we spent most of the afternoon up on the deck just watching the state of Washington go by.



Just before dinner we finally got round to opening Andrew's birthday cards and presents. Most of them had arrived by the time we left and were still in tact after the trip up. 


After that we had dinner followed by sitting up in the crow's nest watching the world go by. It was an amazing spot on the ship and wasn't often too crowded so we could find a spot and just curl up with a book or watch for whales. We spent a lot of time in there. Particularly because on the ship you could take the food and drink anywhere you wanted too, so we would often grab a tea or coffee along with some form of sweet treat from the kitchen area and just lounge around in the crow's nest. We definitely took advantage of the food!


So there we go day 1 of the cruise, and we aren't anywhere near Alaska yet! We were pretty tired after the first day, especially due to the 6am flight out of Los Angeles so we crashed pretty hard that night. It was a good job the rocking motion of the boat lulled us to sleep so well! 
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