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Reverse version of mom and my first cruising together, transpacific from Tokyo to Anchorage. Läs mer
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  • Transpacific Cificapsnart
    Dag 11

    Sea Day 4

    17 april, Bering Sea ⋅ 🌬 36 °F

    Uhhh. The sky and sea are beautiful. We talked to nice people. We stunk at trivia. But we got to see dolphins for a moment.

    Tonight we will eat at ‘Cagney’ Steakhouse. They have crab cakes…’nuff said.

    Around 6:30 pm the captain came on the intercom in the staterooms (This is never a good thing) and announced that the emigration people couldn’t get to Dutch Harbor due to weather. We are not allowed to go to any US port unless the representatives are here to do face to face interviews for customs. So we don’t get to go to Dutch Harbor/Unalaska…

    It’ll be interesting to see how the other passengers respond to the change. With this we will have had almost a full week of sea days.

    Mom and I ate at Cagney’s steakhouse. It was super fancy. Mom was convinced the drink server was ticked off she only had a soda, but he was just messing with her. Ate a really big dinner. It was only two courses but then the waitress guilted us into getting the “OMG caramel cheesecake” which we are two bites and had to bring it back to the room.    Läs mer

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  • Transpacific Cificapsnart
    Dag 12

    Sea Day 5

    18 april ⋅ 🌬 39 °F

    Mom and I slept in late due to the constant clock changing. The weather is pretty rough.

    Scratch that. It feels like the boat is gonna tip over. The Jewel is one of the smaller ships in NCL. The gale warning that kept us from docking at Dutch Harbor caught up with us. The rocking woke us up and was so violent we could only sit up for a minute or two before seasickness smacked us.

    The majority of the day was spent flat on our backs to keep from barfing. Mom ventured out for about five minutes. I managed to get up to the 13th floor for pictures. The elevator kept clanking back and forth.

    The video of the ship’s bow looked like something out of Deadliest Catch. And it snowed!

    Finally just after midnight things settled down enough for us to move around again.    Läs mer

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  • Transpacific Cificapsnart
    Dag 13

    Sea Day 83…

    19 april, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 37 °F

    The time changes are wrecking us. It was 11:30 before we woke up. Managed to eat late lunch. There wasn’t a lot of room…but a couple waved us over to share their table. There are so many interesting people on this cruise. After the couple we sat with left, we did the same thing and waved another couple over and spoke with them for a while.

    Again we did slightly better in trivia with Michael Jackson songs. After that we watched the piano player from the ship’s band, Hikaru. She really gets into playing…like almost head banging hopping into it. She did a lot of classical and theatrical songs and at the end she played part of my favorite Hisaishi Joe songs called “Summer.” I’ve never heard it played live before. She talked with people afterwards. Mom forced me to speak Japanese. The lady looked thrilled that someone else spoke Japanese.

    We wanted to see her again later in the day but the ship started to rock…so I repacked some things. I’m not as good as Greg when it comes to suitcase Tetris but I’m pretty happy with it.

    In bed earlier tonight in hopes we get to go to Kodiak tomorrow.    Läs mer

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  • Transpacific Cificapsnart
    Dag 14

    Kodiak Island Alaska

    20 april, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 39 °F

    We arrived in port around 7am and had an alarm set for 8:30 just in case. Today we clear customs…maybe. They have been calling floor by floor, we were last before the staff. Shouldn’t have been a problem right? Surely everyone Would follow directions right? Everyone would have all the documents requested, in hand and completely filled out? Surely, SURELY?!?!

    Then I remembered we are back in the US. And we are tendering. Starting at 8…after clearing customs…the first group left at 8:30.

    Currently it is 11:44am, over three hours since the whole thing started. We are stuck in line. The boat leaves at 6pm. We have to be onboard by 5:00pm but the last tender is at 5:30?!? I don’t know where the previous good sense flew off to.

    And I’m putting this in here because I’m out of excuses for a certain group of people for mom. I cannot believe how rude, loud, disrespecting this group has been. They ALWAYS ( not occasionally) ALWAYS CUT LINE!! In the halls, in the restaurants, seats in the theater and they don’t care.

    Anyway we get through customs about 12:30am. On to the next queue! The staff handled this one well, rows of chairs each line the number of people who could fill a tender boat. Around 1:30pm we got the go-ahead to board. By this point it’d started raining.

    Throughout the process everyone kept mostly calm and still had a good attitude. The town of Kodiak was quite small. There was a mudslide behind their McDonalds. We walked through a small shopping center that felt like Oak Ridge Mall for some reason. We met some of the Ulukaq ladies, who told us about some of their history. Their museum was currently being remodeled. One young lady was selling stickers.

    Next we went to the wildlife museum. But seems like Norwegian scheduled an expensive tour to a place less than two blocks from the harbor. It was getting to be a little too crowded for me. We headed back to the huge line to wait for a return tender. The people on this cruise are really great, funny and chill.

    Back on the ship we ate some of the tea time snacks. Then we headed back to our room 8598.
    We captured some food and brought it back to our cabin.    Läs mer

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  • Transpacific Cificapsnart
    Dag 15

    Seward, Alaska

    21 april, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 37 °F

    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.    Läs mer

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  • Transpacific Cificapsnart
    Dag 16

    Heading Home Eventually

    22 april, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 32 °F

    Up at 7am. Got a tiny bit of breakfast and then waited in the theater for our transfer tour to be called. Cue low key madness…our group was called, we checked out of the ship and headed for the Seward Terminal to grab our luggage. All there, all good! We stood in line about 20 minutes. We were the last ones on the first bus. I was concerned there wouldn’t be seats. We ended up sitting in the very front…good seats but earned us some glares.

    Our drive from Seward to Anchorage took about 3 hours. We saw gorgeous views of the mountains (and supposedly glaciers covered in snow, hard to tell…) and a bore tide. We stopped for an hour at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. There were moose, bison, musk ox, brown and black bears, elk, foxes, a porcupine, an eagle and coyote. Most were there for rehabilitation or conservation breeding. Beautiful area, all outside in large sprawling pens.

    Finally we were on our way, but to our surprise, the bus went to the airport. Our excursion was supposed to end at the Anchorage Hospitality Center. After that airportees got out, we continued to the Center. It was a room in a convention center. It was well organized by young volunteers and served as a place to ‘put together a game plan’ and have an area as a base. It’s a beautiful convention space but there was nothing around it except a park that the tour guide cautioned us not to go to due to the homelessness issue.

    Instead we decided to head back to the airport on the 4pm shuttle. I needed to check about bags anyway. The lady at the counter checked us in early which was great, but we did have to pay for bags🙄. Mom’s suitcase was exactly 50 pounds! No worries, after a nice talk with the lady, we went too the security checkpoint. More good luck, the lady at TSA pre-check has us go through her (much faster) lane. Most of the restaurants were closed so we had to eat at McDonald’s. Mom finally got her Diet Coke!

    Our first flight is at 9 pm with 1 hour 40 minute lasting in St. Paul Minnesota. Then on back to Myrtle where we are scheduled to arrive Tuesday morning around 10:45 am.

    In the end we made it back home 20 minutes early!!    Läs mer

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