Avast ye maties, we be at sea

It’s been 20 years since we were on a cruise ship. A lot has changed in that time. For example, we are wearing a Princess medallion that has our stateroom and account information linked to it. No more cash or credit for your onboard purchases, simply scan your medallion and it’s done. But the medallion does more than just OK your charges, as we approach our stateroom, the door automatically unlocks. When we want a drink or something to eat, we simply place the medallion on a reader and it tells the server what level we purchased for our order. If you select the Princess Plus drink package, which is the one that came with our room, you can have any drink on the ship that costs $15 or less absolutely free, and as many as you like. This also applies to specialty deserts although we haven’t tried any of those yet. It even tracks where you are on the ship so the waiter can find you to deliver your order. How cool is that! I like to order a large meal then start walking around the ship to see if they can catch me.

Seems black & white but that’s how it looked all day

The daily activities are too numerous to note here. But suffice it to say, there is something going on all day and well into the night.  We stopped in to listen to a glacier talk, well, not a glacier talking but a woman talking about a glacier. Once it was over, it was time to put that knowledge to work and see if we could identify a glacier. Yep, one right in front of the ship, can’t miss it. That was the Hubbard glacier but it looks just like all the other ocean reaching glaciers. The only difference is that the Hubbard is about 6 miles wide. It’s a biggun!

Hubbard Glacier

Afterwards, did a bit of reading; more drinking; bit of reading; more eating; etc., etc., etc. Kept us busy until dinner was served.

Tomorrow, we arrive in Icy Straight Point for a bit of Jeep touring through the old logging roads.