Sunday, July 10, 2011

Our Cruise begins


Wow!! What a fantastic beginning to our Alaskan Adventure!
We left Abbotsford ahead of schedule and the traffic was almost nonexistent. We parked the car, called a cab and away we went. We arrived at Canada place about eleven and we got right through the line ups and we were on board having lunch at Horizon Court at noon.
It was a glorious warm sunny day and Vancouver was magnificent as usual. We had lots of time to roam around the ship and find everything.
We had 2 surprises… our room is great and it said it was fully obstructed but that is so not true. We have a wonderful view straight out. It is obstructed if you look down only. So we are very pleased E205 on the Diamond Princess is a great room
The second surprise was getting a tour of the SPA. We have just walked through other times but we happened upon a tour and we are amazed at how much is available there. You can get pampered beyond anything we could have imagined. If you wanted to you could spend your entire cruise in the spa.
As usual dinner was great. We have 2 couples from The Michigan area as table mates, and they seem to be a lot of fun.
We went to the Welcome show in the Princess theatre. They had a fantastic juggling comedian and his name is Dan Bennett. We will definitely go to see his full show for sure.
After the show we walked a little and then got some ice tea and a cookie and came back to our room to call it a night. It was a beautiful night and the moon and the sea were glorious. The description of sea conditions is “Smooth and rippled” and it really was. No movement at all.

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Carol said...

Thanks Carolyn for the great photo of your cabin view; if you get a chance, pls. take some of other 'obstructed cabin' views. Continue having a great time!