6/13/13

We woke up this morning to cold temps and gray skies.  We showered (the water pressure in so great, I almost gave myself a concussion while washing my hair!), dressed and met for breakfast.  Our table was right next to a window and as we were eating, Dave spotted porpoises playing not too fair from the ship – that was so cool!  Dave and I took a few turns around the deck and then split up to attend different events.  Dave took in a lecture about the history and points of interest in our three port calls: Skagway, Juneau and Ketchikan while I viewed a fruit and vegetable carving demonstration.  I met up with Dave, Lana and Kelly while wandering around trying to get the lay of the land, so to speak.  Dave had seen John at the lecture, but we haven’t seen him since.  We will all meet for lunch at 12:30 and exchange tales of our morning.  Our cabin steward, Vicente, graciously removed the panel between our balcony and Lana and John’s balcony.  Now, we will all (with an extra chair for Kelly) be able to sit (when it warms up a bit) and enjoy the views.

Lana and Kelly did a line dancing class this morning – a good way to get heated up on the ship.  We had a lovely lunch and then went to a lecture by the ship’s naturalist on otters, orcas and humpback whales.  We went back to our cabins for a bit and then donned our winter clothes so we could stand outside and view the glacier.  While we were entering the inlet, we saw a whale (or at least his tail) and then noticed some icebergs floating by.  Some of them were very blue (it is because they reflect blue light) and some had seals or Stellar sea lions lying on them.  The glacier was worth the wait in the cold.  Hubbard Glacier on Yakutat Bay is huge!  We had great views from the promenade deck and when we went back to warm up, we had equally good views from our cabin.  We will dress for dinner shortly and then we are planning to see a magic/comedy show. 

Dinner was excellent as usual and afterwards we had our pictures taken.  We then went to the lounge where we enjoyed the magic/comedy show.  He was quite good and we had a few laughs as well.  Kelly was going to check out another show, but we were tired and went back to the cabin.