Tawna Perkins: October 2011

Monday, October 17, 2011

BVOM:-Day 7-Ketchikan

Ketchikan was the prettiest Alaskan city that we stopped at, and yet sadly, it was the city we spent the least amount of time in, Bryce and I's biggest regret from the whole trip. The dock time was from 7 AM-noon, and I'm sorry but I was on vacation, and vacation to me does NOT involve getting up before 7 AM. However, if I had known how awesome Ketchikan was, I would have made the exception just this once. I guess that means I will have to go back and visit! We walked around the shops for a bit, and then went to a lumberjack show. It was a little cheesy, but funny and I was impressed by what they could do. Bryce and I LOVE fish tacos and are always on the hunt for finding yummy ones, so we stopped at a place there and ate some. Pretty good! By then, it was time to get back on the boat. :( But I loved our morning walk around the city, I couldn't get over how beautiful it was!

Since it was such a short dock excursion day, we got to spend a lot of free time on the ship, and Bryce and I finally did more than just take naps and watch movies in our cabin (I loved doing that, but I kind of wish I would have done some more activities on the ship!) It was fun to walk around and do and see different things on the ship-it was a very memorable day for me!

That night was the last night we would be eating in the formal dining room (The next night we would dock at dinner time in Victoria, Canada), so the dining staff put on a fun musical dinner, we loved it! I was kind of sad to know I wouldn't see them anymore, our waiters and drink guy were hilarious! After dinner of course, we went to another awesome show! (Blogging about this REALLY makes me want to go back on a cruise!!)

Saturday, October 1, 2011

BVOML, Day 6-Sitka

The next day on our cruise found us in Sitka, Alaska, a quaint, small Alaskan city known for it's fishing industry (as well as being the city where The Proposal was set, although the film was NOT filmed in the actual city of Sitka). Bryce and I wanted to check out the "cathedral" first-the night before each excursion day, the cruise line gives you a map of the city where we would be porting and different sites around the city. Based on this info given to us, we thought this cathedral would be cool. Funny thing about is, when we got there, in order to get into the actual cathedral you had to pay a 5 dollar donation-but it wasn't a donation, it was mandatory! The cathedral turned out to be a small church. It had it's little perks, but not 5 dollars worth! After spending about 10 minutes in it, we decided to go explore some shops in the city. Our favorite one was the Chocolate Moose. They sold yummy chocolate, as well as cute crafts. We both spent some money in there! It was a fun site seeing city, so beautiful with water surrounding it, as well as big, green mountains. My favorite part of Sitka was this boy singing American Pie. He was probably around 11 years old, and sang and play the guitar so beautifully. My heart melted, and I could have sat and listened to him perform all day! That night was the second formal night of dinner. After a yummy dinner and a fun performance of a guy impersonating Elton John (He was amazing and super funny!), we went to the deck of the ship, where they were having a chocolate party. I have never seen so much chocolate in one place, and the displays were beautiful! I was really excited to eat chocolate from the chocolate fountain, but the worker accidentally got chocolate over my formal dress...embarrassing! (PS, my mom had to work hard to get the stains out. But she's a pro at getting stains out and you can't even tell now that there was chocolate all over my dress. Thanks mom!) Such a fun, memorable night!