Seward, Alaska

Holy crap the mountains here are HUGE! I’m not sure how well pictures will show the sheer size of them…and locals say they consider them little mountains.

We used the free shuttle to get around the town. The driver has a basket of life saver candies in the front and the Australians freaked out! Evidently they don’t get life savers in their country? Mom ended up sharing the Werthers Candy she had. I think this trip has trained everyone well. Everyone is nice and quiet on this particular public transit.

It’s not quite season yet so many things were closed. The shops we did visit were very fun. We didn’t visit the sea life center since we’re will be doing something similar tomorrow on the way to Anchorage. It was a little too early for orca so we didn’t do a boat tour.

After the rain started we returned to the ship to finish packing. We did one last trivia. A guy who was always there sorta teamed up with us, I think he was French. Some of hoss answers were right and some weren’t. We got half right… But it was fun.

For the last performance of our trip we saw Le Cirque Bijou circus style act. It was very theatrical and well done. Not quite Cirque du Soliel but still cool. There were acrobatics, silk work, etc. No pics were allowed. There was a lady on the steps that kept flashing a high power blinking flashlight…It was super annoying…But then we realized she was keeping people from taking photos. After that we were all for it. After the acrobatics they played the farewell song and has staff come out.

We’d heard that there was corn soup at O’sheehan. But our waiter misunderstood and brought us cheesecake brownie instead. Then he brought some sort of orange soup. It was a bit too spicy for me but mom liked it I think.

We got our suitcases put out before 9…although our cabin attendant caught us wheeling them out. No worries…we hope. To bed by 9:30 pm so we can get up at seven tomorrow.Read more