Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts

Monday, October 29, 2012

On Our Way

After spending time at the Market, we went back to the ship to board.  You had to go through several different areas before you were on the ship.  First had to show your tickets, then give up your luggage unless you wanted to keep your carry-on since we didn't know if our luggage would be in our room before dinner time.  Then you stood in line with your passport like at an airport security check.  Bags, luggage, purses, etc went through the x-ray machine.  When we made it past that we stood in another line to talk to a Celebrity employee to make sure we had the right dinner times and excursions.  Finally, after that, we were able to board the ship.

If you look closely you can see the luggage in the yellow bin.
 
A crane lowers it down to the lowest level to bring aboard the ship.
 
On deck!
 
Our room with the balcony!  Most days it was cold but we still wrapped ourselves in swim towels and jackets and sat outside to view Alaska!  You wouldn't want to be inside to experience this state!
 
All aboard and ready to leave!  Looking back towards downtown.
 
Looking the opposite way and seeing the Space Needle.  We took a tram there after we got back.
 
Our balcony is above the life rafts.
 
 
 
 
Notice the other ship?  There were 3 of us leaving around the same time for Alaska.  We only saw them for a bit then we all must of been in different ship channels or were starting our cruises at different places because when we looked later we didn't see them anymore.
 



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Dad and Mom's Alaska Cruise

This is going to be in lots of installments!  I only snapped over 700 pictures!

Got a good price on a balcony Alaskan cruise quite a while ago.  We had sailed with Carnival on our first cruise but the deal had us sailing with Celebrity.  It is suppose to be a step or two above Carnival.  We sailed the inside passage with stops in Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan and Victoria, BC and cruising the Tracy Arm Fjord.  We flew to Seattle and got there early enough to visit Pike Market.  What fun place!  There are several stalls and shops surrounding a few blocks near the docks.  You can find fresh fish, beautiful flowers, spices, fruits and vegetables, etc there.  We had fun touring the area.

 
 
We stopped here for breakfast.  Lowell's is a popular place.  You order off the menu boards and then your meal is made to order.  There were 3 levels of seating but also a line of customers waiting to order out the door of the restaurant.
 
Can you imagine being able to go to a Farmer's Market anytime you wanted to go?  The fruit and veggies were so pretty!
 
 
 
Several flower stalls.  One of those bouquets of flowers were only $5!
 
 
 
These babies were huge!
 
 
 
Beecher's cheese shop.  We got to watch how cheese was made and get a free sample.
 
Cigar box guitars.
 
Looking at our ship from the market.
 
People like to draw on the walls here.
 
 



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Sunday, October 28, 2012

At the Denver Zoo.......

While Jay was at his Oil and Gas Convention, the rest of us went to the Denver Zoo.  It was a hot day and hundreds of school children were there.  We stayed a couple of hours and then left to find a good BBQ place to eat at.  Smiles were hard to come by for some of us.  :)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Josie loved her Uncle Joel on this trip!
 
 



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Off to Parker!

A few weeks after Kinsley was born, we took off to see Josie, Ashley and Jared in Colorado.  Jay had some stops along the way relating to Redi so we stopped at this rest stop for a few minutes.  It was quite nice.  I had never been there before.  Besides the bathrooms.....they have a little museum that is opened in the summer.
 
It was SO fun to see this lil' Miss again!  Oh how I miss her not living close by!  Her personality is big and it is so much fun being around her after she warms up to you.  I always hate when we leave because I know she will forget us and we have to start all over again in getting Josie to come to us but oh she is a cutie pie!

This day Janessa, Josie, Kinsley and Grammie went for a walk around the neighborhood.  Don't you love her sunglasses!?!
 
 
 
 
What a big smile!
 
Such a happy girl!
 
Kinsley didn't really care where we are as long as we didn't disturb her beauty rest!
 



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