So….how did we end up on an Alaskan cruise you ask?  Remember that wedding and hurricane that happened last September?  When we had bought plane tickets to go to a wedding and then had to ditch the tickets, grab the cat and all our worldly possessions and high tail it out of Dodge before the hurricane made a direct hit on our condo?  Yah, those tickets.  Well, the airlines wouldn’t refund us money but gave us vouchers instead and we had to use them before September.  It just so happened our 40^th wedding anniversary was coming up and Gary and I had had an Alaskan cruise on our bucket list, so I decided to combine all 3 events and schedule a trip to Alaska while we were up north.  It was an 8 day 7 night cruise on the Carnival cruise lines.  We were going to see a fjord, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan, Victoria Canada and Seattle (Seattle is where the ship left and returned from).  We were very excited.  I packed the binoculars so we could see everything up close and Gary packed his I-Pad that had Navionics loaded on it so we could track the ships movements.  That way we’d know they weren’t trying to take us to take us to Oregon or something and then try to pass it off as Alaska.

So we went all out seeing as it was our 40th and all.  We got a balcony room

See the I-Pad?

Waiting for luggage

Our Balcony

As we cruise

We bought the drink package too because we only had to spend $60 a day to break even.  That seemed doable.  At close to $9 a drink, I figured it would be a snap, besides, it also included a tip.  We did find out that while we were in the port of Seattle they charged us some kind of tax on each drink so those drinks cost us about .80.  Those sneaky dirty dogs!  Here are some of the drinks we had

Chocolate Martini

Mudslide

Bud Light

Rum and Coke

Harvey Wallbanger

Appletini

XO

Another Chocolate Martini

Bloody

I don’t know what the drink was but it must have been good

Chocolate shake

Drambuie

Another beer

Margarita

Strawberry Margarita

Another Strawberry Margarita

Some delicious frozen concoction

Not a strawberry Margarita but equally as good

A couple more drinks on our balcony

Bloody with olives

Gin and Tonic

After a while I’d forget to take a picture of the drink and I figured you wouldn’t want to look at a bunch of empty glasses.  We did manage to pound down 68 drinks between the two of us and we certainly had our daily requirement of fresh fruit served in those drinks 

We did have a few bars that were our favorites.  One of our favorites was call “Serenity”,

Serenity – No Children Allowed!

Even a hot tub

Those have cushions in them

Gary relaxing

it was located on the stern of the boat, the top level.  There were no kids allowed and they had a lot of great places to lounge.  They did have a pool but it was to friggin cold to go swimming 

We had another spot we liked to sit

Prop your feet up and enjoy the view

This was located just around the corner from another one of our favorite bars and was on the 2nd level.   Nice comfy chairs, nice big window to look out of.  Close walking distance to the bar.  Nice and warm.  Great place to sit and drink.

We even went to a sports bar

Sports Bar

Can you believe it?  And there wasn’t a soul in it.  I guess if your on a cruise the wife is saying “No way are you sitting in front of a TV watching the game while we are on this cruise!”

Well, I must admit, I was the one who fell down on the job of drinking their quota.   I just couldn’t keep up.  I learned my lesson….I am just to old for a drink package