It's official... I got my passport! Now you all my judge me, but I wasn't sure that I would need a passport to go to Alaska since it's a state, but apparently to go on an Alaskan cruise I need one because we go through Canada. I'm pretty excited about going because I haven't been on any type of vacation in years (downside to constantly being in classes). I was invited to tag along with my friend Lucy and her mom and her mom's friend. Since we're set to sail in two weeks I've been trying to as much research as I can. First we'll be flying to Seattle where we'll stay for a couple days before boarding. Now my initial thought was to go to the Black Keys concert while we were up there, but we'll be arriving a day late so that's a no go. Instead I looked up which restaurants were featured on the show Diners, Drive-in, and Dives with host Guy Fieri, these are the restaurants that showed up: Bizzarro Italian Cafe, Georgia's Greek, Mike's Chili Parlor, Pam's Trinidadian Caribbean Kitchen, Slim's Last Chance, and Voula's Offshore Cafe. I figured since we don't have any set plans for the city, and we have to eat that this would be a fun little thing to try out. As far as being on the cruise itself there are many things we can do on the ship as well as little exploration trips off the ship. One thing that stood out to me was going gold mining (idk how much gold is left, but I keep what I find). Now since it will be in Alaska/Canada I assume it will be colder than a Caribbean cruise so I'll still have to dress warm, but I've been working out really hard trying to get into the best shape I can so I will still be dawning a swimsuit (one piece, not a bikini because I'm not there yet). I plan to update this blog with tons of pics of the trip as well as prices and other facts in case any of you want to take an Alaskan cruise in the future.
Two weeks until Bon Voyage!
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