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Our first cruise and lots of fun.

Cruising the Alaskan inside passage, we spent the most of our cruise in this body of water, which is somewhat calmer than open Ocean, although we did have some open water navigation, and some of that was impressive, as it was rough

Tried acupuncture an interesting experience. I was hooked up all over my body, and then voltage applied like Frankenstein I was renewed to life but it was not monstrous

Back to the beginning tug optional now that the ships have 360 degree electronically driven motor/propeller These ships are massive. The one pictured here has a greater capacity than the Eurodam but we are not complaining. We had no issues bumping into each other, and a very mature crowd. I will leave that up to up to your imagination, as to what that looks like:) We were among the youth contingent, if I may modestly say so myself.

The Eurodam was able to to take us right to the end of the fjord and made a complete 180 with those gyro motors so we could get a great look no matter where we were on the ship. The mountainous terrain on our way in shows the reason why Alaska in this environs is truly wilderness. On the bow of the Eurodam. It was very cold but worth the chill.

One of the flylights was a 30 minute trip to a resort where we had a great lunch of Salmon, Halibut and crab cakes.

Very fun flight. Our pilot was a nice young guy. He gets a lot of flight time, as all the remote locations can only by reached by air for transportation and supply. Of course, guess who was a prevalent package sender? We had a very nice salmon bake at Salmon Falls lodge, with halibut and crab cakes too. The owner made his money early building barges for workers to live on during the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster.

We had a few drinks, here and there, nothing too extreme and as we did have an all inclusive package of 15 drinks a day, we were quite well behaved. Disclaimer drinks also included other non intoxidants. We hung out a lot in the Ocean Room bar, where the talented mixologist were perfomimg and this very cool band, The DAM band performed and they were on it. They were for guys form Brazil and Argentina, who had just gotten together a few month ago but it sure did not show it! Russ’s Uncle Larry also in this picture, good guy.

Russ in dress uniform. He is a commander in the Navy. There were 2 dress up nights on the Eurodam. We met at our work at The State of Oregon.

Us and Russ and Penny

Follow the circuit left to the right on one of the dress up night: Vera, Chris, Michelle, Penny,Russ, Penny (Larry’s wife), Larry,me and the Mrs.

The Eurodam dock next to a Carnival Princess ship. I’ll take the Eurodam much more to scale 2130 passengers versus probably, unless you want a slide and a merry go round. I’m much to sophisticated for such frivolity.

Museum for Ketchchikan Alaska volunteer fire department

Ketchikan during gold rush days a respite for the minors working the hills. There were places where comfort could be found.

This is the time for Salmon to finish their cycle of life, as pictured here.

A peak of the sun not a frequent sight on this trip

It is not without a slight poke

Tried acupuncture an interesting experience. I was hooked up all over my body, and then voltage applied like Frankenstein I was renewed to life but it was not monstrous