Gulf of Alaska, June 30.

We were at sea all day today so we tried to do things we hadn't done yet since it was our last day on-board.

As Deluxe Suite Guests, there is a special dining room for breakfast. So we tried that. It was table service and very, very nice. There were only about six tables in the King's Room and we had our special wait-staff. It had a much more extensive menu than room service.

We then headed to our disembarkation briefing and also the crew good-bye. There had all of the crew at least represented, from the vacuum cleaner guys, room stewards, cooks, entertainers up to the captain. So that was fun.

The we went to the demonstration kitchen and watched how to cook Steak Diane and chilled raspberry soup. It was entertaining...and smelled good. We then hit the casino and actually won some money.

We had a quick bite to eat on the Lido deck. We hadn't eaten in an hour or so, so we had to keep up our strength. It was a pretty grey day, about 50 degrees, but there was a lot of rocking, since we were in open water.

We then went to a towel folding demonstration, which was cute. Between the four room stewards they could do something like 40 different kinds of animals. There was a standing room only.



We then attended Mass. That was a unique experience, but there were a lot of people there. The priest gave a decent homily, at least it was prepared. We even sang.

We then went back to our suite to figure out packing. We had several options, to carry bags on the train, send some bags on the Anchorage and send others to Fairbanks. We decided to send most of our stuff onto Fairbanks, so we wouldn't have to mess with them.

We had dinner at the Pinnacle Grill, which was the up-scale restaurant on-board. It was Lois' retirement celebration. Wow, it was awesome. First, the chef sent out an amuse bouche of smoked duck breast wrapped around a little slaw. We also had a variety of freshly backed rolls, three kinds of butter: garlic, lemon and tomato, and three kinds of salt, a black smoked Hawaiian sea salt, a spicey red sea salt and finally a pink sea salt. This was followed by our appetizer which was smoked salmon, cooked salmon and scallops served with wasabe cream. We both had the steak Diane, whcih was flamed table side. It was a great presentation and a really, really tasty dish. Lois had a baked potatoe and mushrooms with her steak and I had scalloped potatoes and creamed spinach. There were lots of tough choices for dessert. I settled on a chocolate volcano cake, Lois had the cream brulee which was presented in three different flavors, chocolate, vanilla and expresso. Again, wow. We went to the casino to give them back their money and finished the evening at the stage show.

 

 

It was still light out at eleven. We closed our suitcases and put them out in the hallway to get picked up. I don't know when or if it ever got dark. At midnight you could have still read a book.

 



 

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