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I’m tempted to hang on and see what the Fantasy TA back to the US is price wise. 😂. The Dream this year would be a great itinerary for us because it leaves from Southampton, but unfortunately we don’t have the vacation. Boo. LOL. We did love Alaska but Scott has worked in Norway and he would...

I think there is something about getting that close that is worth that crazy price, if it’s something that you can swing. I wouldn’t compromise doing other excursions in other ports because you CAN see it from the ship. There is something about being close if it calves and you can also hear...

That would make sense that it was a culinary type tour. Sitka was such an easy place to do a DIY day for sure. :thumbsup2 I did go and quickly check out the Rocky Mountain train stuff and it all looked very interesting. We are going to try and do some type of Norway/Iceland cruise next year...

It's going to go against the DCL recommendations, and of course you just never know what you might run into, but I really wish we had booked the earlier direct flight when we disembarked as I had followed the DCL recommendations and we had a connection flight. We did express walk off and were...

I haven't even heard of a Rocky Mountaineer train trip but it's intriguing to me because my sister lives just outside of Knoxville. Edited to add: I see it's not east side of US, but I will look into it for sure. Definitely something to start researching, thanks for the tip! I am very far...

Looking forward to hearing about your adventures, your trip reports are always great! ::yes::

You are Canadian, you have every right to be pedantic. :goodvibes Once we left Vancouver and sailed out that night, mentally I was in Alaska all the way. :rotfl2: It was really nice to be sailing so close to land as there was a lot to be nosey and look at. :D The champagne tasting was...

Tuesday, September 19 – Debarkation I think the last day of every trip report begins with the same thing. I didn’t sleep well. :rotfl: True to form I had a night of being restless and by 6 am Scott was awake as well and I opened the curtains to watch us sail into Vancouver. The forecast...

We repeated our previous “lucky whale sighting” process of walking around the deck so we saw both sides. It didn’t work today, but we got some exercise in (if you could call it that – we were really walking slowly.) After a while we began to see some breaks in the clouds and the weather...

Monday, September 18 – At Sea Today was going to be all about being lazy, which included a delayed hop out of bed to take some photos outside. :teeth: It was cloudy ahead of us. But apparently, we had already missed the sunshine this morning! 🌞 We were finally moving by 8:45 am and...

As we were right by the screen, I was able to get a couple of good photos of our drawing creations. Awful as usual. :rotfl: It seems like it should be so easy, and then when the pressure is on to actually draw, we completely flake. :blush: Scott’s followed by mine. We popped back to our...

The only other thing on our hitlist today, was to find somewhere to have Alaskan King Crab. It’s not something either of us really care about eating one way or the other, but it’s Alaska and I didn’t want to have any regrets about us (me :laughing: ) not eating it. I Googled places that we...

Sunday, September 17 – Ketchikan Today was our last port day and we elected to make it pretty chill and have a go-with-the-flow kind of day. I managed my usual morning routine of popping out of bed at about 7 am, snapping a couple of photos and then going back to bed. Scott must have...

:lmao: That just cracks me up that you guys have bought a bottle on the ship. 😋 I will take the $12 a glass and be very happy with it. :laughing: Sitka was really nice and by far our favorite port in terms of just getting off and walking around. We didn't see any of the typical cruise ship...

We sat and enjoyed another round of drinks and waited for a fairly heavy rain shower to pass. 🌦️⛈️ While we were in there some of the other customers were talking about how “Disney cruise” people had just shown up on some type of excursion. It had to do with having shots, which was intriguing...

At the end of the marina pathway, we came upon this beautiful campus. We weren’t sure exactly what it was as there was a sign for the Sheldon Jackson Museum, but that was off to one side. It was some part of the school system and Google told us that it has something to do with the Sitka Fine...

Saturday, September 16 – Sitka Our plan for today was to get off the ship and do a walking tour of Sitka on our own. I had done some research and it seemed like it was an easy thing to do, and we didn’t really fancy any of the excursions. It was a relaxed start to the day and we were just...

How cool you got to see the whales close to the ship. The very first night there were whales close to the ship while we were at dinner in Tiana's. We didn't attempt to get up and see them, but lots of people said they were really close. :teeth: It was a shame it rained so much in Skagway, but...

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He got the ones of the Wonder going out and I got them coming back in. It was a great day for sure. ::yes:: We are expecting differences but we wanted a change in itinerary. I'm so glad that your husband and MIL are enjoying it! 😍 Thank you! We've had Alaska on our list for a long time...