Good morning from Alaska! I’m Stephen…
Noooo! We’re not in Alaska!
Take two!
Good morning from Seattle. I’m Stephen, she’s Andie, and we’re about to head to
Alaska on our first cruise ever!
Seriously, this is a bucket list travel experience for us. We are about to embark the Majestic Princess,
and we’re gonna take you with us for all of our first impressions. Let’s go!
Ready to board!
Enjoy your cruise!
You’re welcome.
Have a terrific time now.
That’s our cabin right there!
[clapping and cheering]
Here we are!
Alright, we are on board! This ship is fully vaccinated, which is amazing. Everybody had
to show proof, we also all had to get negative Covid tests before we got on board.
So we’re feeling pretty safe about it all.
We are on our way now to find some lunch while we wait for our stateroom to be ready.
Let’s see what we find.
First meal on the ship. Let’s see how the pizza is.
Cheers!
Alright, that pizza was pretty good.
Now, we have to go to our muster stations. We just finished watching the safety briefing.
So we gotta check in there, and then we should be all official, and we can go check out our cabin.
Alright, let’s go see what our cabin looks like! Haha, we got the music goin’ over there!
Look at that! I didn’t even need a key. Medallion unlocked the door for me.
Alright, this is our room!
This is cute! It’s adorable!
So, we got a bed here. Nice and cozy. A little nightstand.
Got a nice TV to watch, although I don’t expect we’ll be spending a whole lot of time in here.
Desk area, in case we try to get some work done. We’ll try to be productive, we’ll see.
And then here by the door, is the closet.
And the bathroom.
Little shower.
Alright, and that’s our home for the next week.
Ready to do this?
Let’s go to Alaska.
Ooh! Show us the balcony!
We got a balcony room. This is very nice.
With – an obstructed view.
Orange submarine!
So, when we started looking at cruises, we were thinking we would get an oceanview room.
That seemed to be in our price range, we definitely wanted some natural light coming in, we didn’t want an interior room.
However, we went with a travel agent, and she recommended this cruise line for us for everything we wanted.
Specifically to go through Glacier Bay National Park.
So, she recommended this one and, they don’t have any oceanview rooms. They only have balcony rooms.
However, we’ve got an obstructed view.
Honestly, we don’t mind. This is way more of an ocean view than we thought we’d get with an oceanview room.
And, when we’re looking out over Alaska’s beautiful landscape, we’re just gonna be looking right over this thing anyway.
But, something to be aware of for other first-time cruisers out there – that, “obstructed views”
can include bright, orange, boats.
Could you believe it’s almost two p.m. and Andie hasn’t even had a cup of coffee yet?
I can’t even get in the shower without having a cup of coffee first! So, we’re gonna go
to the International Cafe, hook our girl up.
I’ll do a mocha. Mocha?
First coffee of the day. I don’t normally wait this long, but we had a lot going on
this morning and I didn’t have the patience to make one in our hotel room.
So, finally.
I really lucked out, I didn’t get a headache yet.
Cooool! Sixteen Please. You got it, Ma’am.
Alright, look at this fancy elevator. We are riding in style.
Seattle!
They have such a beautiful pool deck out here. It’s kind of a shame we’re going someplace
so cold, because… I think we might actually take advantage of that otherwise.
Who knows? Maybe we’ll do the hot tub one cooler night, that’d be kinda fun, huh?
Oh yeah.
One thing about these cruises is, there is so much food included.
I feel like all we’re gonna do it eat as long as we’re on the ship.
100.
Eat and sleep. So it’s a good thing we have some excursions to get us off of here.
That pizza was pretty light, so now we’re indulging in some noodles from the noodle bar before we set sail.
That’s your Cooler, and that’s your Paradise Punch.
Beautiful, thank you!
Thank you!
We’re really enjoying all the outdoor space here.
As far as inside, let’s say it’s a little beige maybe? But…
A little dated looking. Yeah, a little dated, but it’s cool.
We’re uh, we’re just really taking in all this space, we gotta gorgeous day out here.
So, we just have some drinks, we’re checking out Seattle and the water, and… getting ready to say “bon voyage.”
So, apparently there’s a whole party over on the pool deck, and they’re gonna have
all kinds of performances and everything as we sail away. It sounds like a lot of fun, but,
we’re kind of enjoying hanging out back here at the uh, aft?… part of the ship?
I’m learning the lingo.
So, we’re gonna hang out back here, we’re gonna watch Seattle as it fades off into the distance,
and uh, enjoy our drinks for a little while, and then who knows? Maybe we’ll join
up with the party towards the end a little bit.
I don’t know if you could see it, but Mount Rainier looks amazing today!
It’s just peeking out, covered in snow, in August?
It’s incredible. What an amazing, impressive mountain that is.
Alright, we’re gonna go check out the sail away party, see what that’s all about.
So, I think we missed the party. By the time we got here there was just some disco music
playing and uh,
now it just stopped and, we’re fighting the wind!
Our hair is really fighting the wind. We saw some chairs blowing on the deck and uh, they’re packing a bunch of stuff up now.
So, what’s next? Idunno!
Bathrobes! Bathrobes, yeah.
Bathrobes. We ordered the free bathrobe option and they weren’t in our rooms, so we need
to find out where those are, because we want our bathrobes for this week!
Looks like a good chocolate, too. Beautiful! There you go. Thank you so much! Welcome!
Pretty excited for this!
Thank you! There you go, welcome! Have a good day.
You too, thank you! I’m sure we’ll see you again! Yeah!
Wanna go for a walk on the deck? Heck yeah, let’s go!
I think Andie found her favorite on-ship activity.
So, we don’t normally unpack when we go to hotels and things, but it’s also because
we tend to do a lot of bouncing around, so we just live right out of the suitcase.
However, we brought some nicer clothes since we’re on a ship and we wanted to make sure
we’re observing the dress code properly.
And uh, we also had [BANG!] to pack kind of a lot…
What was that?
That was my head!
Oh, what happened?!
What was that?
I hit my head on the shelf in the closet coming up.
Are you ok? Oh, I’m fine, it’s hard. Oh, shoot. Ok.
Can I do a take-two? Sure.
Ok. I mean, I don’t know why you…
Don’t pass out on me. … think you’re gonna get a better take than this.
So we just had dinner at the main dining room, and, we thought we’d go outside and get
a night view and…
… we got as far as the door and the cold blast that came in…
BLASTED!
I was like, “Nope. Not doin’ it. I can’t.” It’s gonna be interesting to see how I handle
Alaska now.
Yeah, it’s gonna get chilly.
Anyway, dinner was excellent. We uh, enjoyed several of their suggest-unnns… I can’t talk.
We had booze-y hot chocolate for dessert and now I’m having a hard time…
It was awesome. … forming my speech. It was really good.
But the whole dinner was actually excellent. It was, I think a lot better than what we
had earlier today, don’t you?
Yeah. For sure.
I mean, the pizza was good. It was nothing to write home about, but we’ll definitely
have it a couple more times while we’re on the ship.
Yep. Yep.
The noodles were fine. Yep. They were good.
But the main dining experience was definitely the best so far. It was quite good.
We’re definitely throwing our vegetarian diet out the window this week. Gotta go pescatarian, right?
Yeah, we kinda traded in our cards. One for the other.
I mean, when you’re in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska…
Yeah, it’s like going to Japan and not having sushi. Exactly.
Ya know, it’s about, what? 9:30, 9:45 or something, and we’re still on East Coast time. So,
we’re gonna be super-lame and tuck in and watch The Love Boat, because they have it
on 24-7 loop here, because it was set on a Princess ship.
Anyway, you guys, we really appreciate you coming on this big adventure with us. This
is so exciting! And, we cannot wait to take you on the next one.
We’ve got our ports of call, some excursions we’re gonna go on. We’re gonna do all
the food on the ship, and take you to see what all the offerings are.
Lots of stuff to show you still in the coming weeks, so, subscribe, hit that notification bell…
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See ya! See ya next time!
We’re really loving all the oultdoor blablebblapp…
Those aren’t that hoy maintenance anyway… that hoy maintenance… hahahahahaha!
That didn’t go so well. Hahahaha-haaahaha!