Hey everyone, it's day two on our cruise to Alaska on the Norwegian joy, and there's so much to do today
It's a sea day. So check it out
Hey everyone, I'm Ken from Northern Viking Explorer
And this is my wife Andrea and we are on day two of our cruise on the Norwegian joy to Alaska
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Today we are trying to decide what we should do. We've got our
Freestyle daily. They've got lots of activities planned that we can take part of but first we have to decide
Where do you breakfast so let's go
So we decided on the American diner for breakfast this morning. It's kind of an old-fashioned
50-60 style diner and it is free only for breakfast. If you do want to eat here for lunch or dinner
It is a la carte
So you do have to pay to eat here, but you get to sit in these cool booths that are inside of cars
It's just a really neat atmosphere. Now. They have a great selection of fruit some oatmeal
They've got your breads and pastries as well as bacon sausage croissants and sausage muffins
Mmm, that looks delicious
Now the beverage station is
Located close to the entrance of the restaurants where they have juice coffee a selection of tea and they have some milk there as well
It's a little chilly out here
It's definitely a little chilly this morning
is
It's so beautiful out here this morning. This ship is really big
We're not noticing any waves at all but the seas are calm as well
We're somewhere off the coast of British Columbia right now
You can also see there's lots of people running around on this upper deck here
This is where the running track is and it does a big loop around the pool area
Then some crazy dude is gonna go on the ocean. Loops. It's really cold. Yeah
It's cold there he goes
It's way too cold for this this morning
So we want to go check out the Observation Lounge and
Pleasently it is very quiet in here. It's like people haven't really discovered this part of the ship yet. It's really nice
There's lots of seating available and we'd hate grab a coffee. Come in here
It's really nice, especially since it's chilly outside
It's really nice up here and we're crossing our fingers that we are gonna see some whales no whales yet?
But also don't forget there's that Starbucks out here as well
But if you want free breakfast, it's also a great place for our Lite free breakfast. They've got the juices and coffees teas
yogurt and fruit
As well as a whole bunch of pastries and breads and if you really want to go simple
You can grab some cereal here as well
So Andrea really wants to win some jewelry and a raffle and there are not very many entries
I'm going to make this box a little bit
Why would I say it shake it everybody says shake
I'm looking for
First number is one six four eight
Four nine
I
Didn't win but hey, there's another draw coming soon Oh perfect
My favorite so we're heading over to the atrium and the food republic is putting on a free cooking demonstration
This is a paid restaurant, but they're giving out free samples
Here, what are they making today? Adria the action they're giving us banana and marshmallow dipped in chocolate
It's delicious. That's what it it was really good
They're also doing this cooking demonstration of how they make sushi
they're giving lots of tips and showing techniques on how to roll the sushi and which
Ingredients to coorporate and the fun thing is they've pulled out an audience member to come join the show
They're giving her some guidance and allowing her to make her own creation in front of everybody
Yeah, I think it was a custom creation. She got to make as well then you get to sample everything that's made at the end
It was tons of fun and you learn a lot being there. So I
Appreciate them putting this on for us. Oh
We are on our way to another draw but I did want to stop and show you this glass staircase
It's really beautiful as well as the chandelier is massive in this area
Those three stories high, but we actually have to go watch a seminar on jewelry for 20 minutes for this draw
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry last drop. It's probably an expensive prize
All women
Can have you but
Forget that your AHA's let's just go eat
It's just after 12 o'clock and we are in the savers
We asked for a seat by the window and they gave this a nice little pointer spot and we can look out
It's really quiet in here right now and we're gonna order some lunch and I think this might be a nice
There are tons of options here I'm gonna have the popcorn shrimp
And Adria is gonna have the chicken nachos and the stuffed potato skins and I'm gonna grab the Philly cheesesteak
You can also have other things there's a tuna salad sandwich
Classic cheeseburgers they've got fish and chips
Spanish frittatas roasted like a lamb fried chicken and a whole bunch more and it's all complimentary except the alcohol
I'm gonna have key lime pie as well for dessert
Here are my popcorn shrimp and Andrea's stuffed potato skins
Delicious
this is the chicken nachos and
Here's my Philly cheesesteak
very scrumptious and the key lime for dessert
It was really good as well
While we are here, I'm gonna hide a duck and again, if you don't know what cruising ducks are
I'll put a link below in the description so you can check that out. I've got a video on that
It's really fun thing that you can hide ducks on cruise ships for other passengers to find
There are always lots of activities going on around the ship right now
They're playing a game with parents versus the kids and somehow they've allowed the parents to that
It's the kids of win this game. They will get a later bedtime. I don't know about that
I'm gonna go jump on the aqua racer waterslide
Andrea says it's way too cold for this but I'm gonna be a trooper and go do this you ride to
Singles or doubles down there. Check out the guy working here. He's wearing a hood. It is really cool
Hey, here's another look at the ocean. Loops waterslide
You get a good view of it from up here, but I'll jump on the slide. Here we go single on a tube
He sharks, baby
Shark dudududu there's some pretty cool like see-through sides on this enclosed slide that you can go down. It's gonna
Psychedelic feel the water is pretty warm and the ride is calm but still really fun
Was it a pretty decent speed when you're riding in the tube? It's a lot of fun
Let's also pop into the galaxy Pavilion on the Norwegian joy
This is kind of their 3d 4d arcade that they got onboard and they go up this really cool
Formula one racer that you can drive with these screens in front of you
Great views on that as well. If you want to do it for the hand liner you can hop on that and
Soar over the mountains as well
You can race your buddies on these simulated race cars where the seats are moving around and if you want to be chased by dinosaurs
You can jump in this Jurassic simulator where you're going to be chased by dinosaurs driving around in the Jeep
It looks like a ton of fun. I have excellent news
Tonight there's going to be a time change and we get to put our clocks back an hour
One extra power
You do know that that's gonna come back to haunt you in a few days
I think it's time to go get an ice cream cone for an afternoon snack
They've got a ton of flavors here including blueberry sherbert Kiwi sherbert
No
sugar added chocolate butter pecan strawberry rum and raisin
Vanilla and chocolate and you can have it on my cone or in a bowl width often
Peewee sherbert ice cream. It's really delicious and we'll whole bunch of flavors to choose from
This little guy
And after all that ice cream, I think we need to try and burn some of it off
Wow
Watching TV and staring off into the ocean trying to spot those whales that we've been looking for. No whales yet?
I think it'll make us feel a little bit better if we at least
Try to work out in here. Let's see. You're pumping some iron
I'm pretending and definitely no to the body fat scanner, especially after all this food and ice cream
That is a big no-no
Today, I'm just gonna stick to the treadmill and stay away from that machine over there
So tonight is the
Formal night, it's dress-up if you want or not
We made reservations for the Manhattan
We'll be headed there but also tonight is the big seafood buffet in the buffet tonight as well
so maybe we'll check that out and
Show you what that looks like. I were on deck 7 just outside
And if you go past the life raft, you'll find this nice little area
Very quiet and there's not too much wind a nice place to get some photos before dinner and it's quiet
So we're headed into the Manhattan for dinner
We got our seat by the window
And lo and behold the whales have come out that is right where we were just standing where all these people are you can see
Whales off in the distance blowing air up into the sky. There's one there
Everybody is super excited. There's another one over on the right-hand side and
we were really excited to see these whales this afternoon it made for a very
Special night and if you happen to get all dressed up tonight, it's a great opportunity to get some photos done
the photographers are out and all set up and ready to take your picture and
It got warm. It's now warm in the evening and the seas are calm
So it's a great night to hang out on the deck
Okay, we wanted to take you up to the buffet the Garden Cafe and show you what they had in the seafood buffet
So they had all sorts of shrimps and mussels different sauces to go with that as well as different salads and pastas
Full of shrimp or different fish and different things. It looked really delicious. We were just so full from dinner as well
They had your typical buffet. So the meats and pizzas and things going on as well
So if you didn't want seafood you can do that and they have this really cool ice sculpture as well for you to check out
We just had an amazing meal at the Manhattan. It was delicious
But the really cool thing was and I'm so thankful that Ken asked
the bonus points there
yes for a window seat and we
actually got there a couple minutes early we had reservations for five and they open the door about five - and
They seated us right next to the window and a couple into our dinner
The captain went over the intercom and announced that there were whales on both sides of the ship
And we probably saw
20 whale yeah while we were eating dinner. It was really cool and fun to watch and that dinner was amazing
I have the steak your chicken when taken on it. It was a bourbon bacon chicken with sweet potatoes on the side
It looked really good. It was really good. And what did we never dessert?
we both had Boston cream pies, but yeah also gave us really good and
know that
Coffee it's not on the menu
They have like espresso and the Starbucks drinks
But if you would like free coffee free coffee regular free coffee or decaf you can order it
Yeah, we're also lemonade we had lemonade and it's not on the menu and that's free as well
So an iced tea iced tea yet. So if you're into those you can order them up while you're there and tomorrow
What are we up to?
We are headed to Ketchikan first thing in the morning, but that'll be a really fun day where they're quite early at 7:00 a.m
I don't know if we'll be off the ship at 7:00, but we'll be up pretty early going in there
And so make sure you subscribe to Northern Viking Explorer. So you don't miss out on tomorrow's adventures in Ketchikan
it's gonna be a ton of fun and
Yeah, I'll check back in with you tomorrow. We're off to but ladies. This is the music hole
So we're gonna have a great night tonight, and we'll see you tomorrow
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