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    Cass, Rob & Kira - Our MAGICal Christmas Cruise 2023

    Looking forward to hearing about your adventures, your trip reports are always great! ::yes::
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    You are Canadian, you have every right to be pedantic. :goodvibes Once we left Vancouver and sailed out that night, mentally I was in Alaska all the way. :rotfl2: It was really nice to be sailing so close to land as there was a lot to be nosey and look at. :D The champagne tasting was...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    Tuesday, September 19 – Debarkation I think the last day of every trip report begins with the same thing. I didn’t sleep well. :rotfl: True to form I had a night of being restless and by 6 am Scott was awake as well and I opened the curtains to watch us sail into Vancouver. The forecast...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    We repeated our previous “lucky whale sighting” process of walking around the deck so we saw both sides. It didn’t work today, but we got some exercise in (if you could call it that – we were really walking slowly.) After a while we began to see some breaks in the clouds and the weather...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    Monday, September 18 – At Sea Today was going to be all about being lazy, which included a delayed hop out of bed to take some photos outside. :teeth: It was cloudy ahead of us. But apparently, we had already missed the sunshine this morning! 🌞 We were finally moving by 8:45 am and...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    As we were right by the screen, I was able to get a couple of good photos of our drawing creations. Awful as usual. :rotfl: It seems like it should be so easy, and then when the pressure is on to actually draw, we completely flake. :blush: Scott’s followed by mine. We popped back to our...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    The only other thing on our hitlist today, was to find somewhere to have Alaskan King Crab. It’s not something either of us really care about eating one way or the other, but it’s Alaska and I didn’t want to have any regrets about us (me :laughing: ) not eating it. I Googled places that we...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    Sunday, September 17 – Ketchikan Today was our last port day and we elected to make it pretty chill and have a go-with-the-flow kind of day. I managed my usual morning routine of popping out of bed at about 7 am, snapping a couple of photos and then going back to bed. Scott must have...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    :lmao: That just cracks me up that you guys have bought a bottle on the ship. 😋 I will take the $12 a glass and be very happy with it. :laughing: Sitka was really nice and by far our favorite port in terms of just getting off and walking around. We didn't see any of the typical cruise ship...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    We sat and enjoyed another round of drinks and waited for a fairly heavy rain shower to pass. 🌦️⛈️ While we were in there some of the other customers were talking about how “Disney cruise” people had just shown up on some type of excursion. It had to do with having shots, which was intriguing...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    At the end of the marina pathway, we came upon this beautiful campus. We weren’t sure exactly what it was as there was a sign for the Sheldon Jackson Museum, but that was off to one side. It was some part of the school system and Google told us that it has something to do with the Sitka Fine...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    Saturday, September 16 – Sitka Our plan for today was to get off the ship and do a walking tour of Sitka on our own. I had done some research and it seemed like it was an easy thing to do, and we didn’t really fancy any of the excursions. It was a relaxed start to the day and we were just...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    How cool you got to see the whales close to the ship. The very first night there were whales close to the ship while we were at dinner in Tiana's. We didn't attempt to get up and see them, but lots of people said they were really close. :teeth: It was a shame it rained so much in Skagway, but...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    He got the ones of the Wonder going out and I got them coming back in. It was a great day for sure. ::yes:: We are expecting differences but we wanted a change in itinerary. I'm so glad that your husband and MIL are enjoying it! 😍 Thank you! We've had Alaska on our list for a long time...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    Confetti, music and characters. Clap along, sing the song, you know the drill. :laughing: 🎉 Today had been just so amazingly awesome that we decided to end on the high note of the 25th celebration and call it a night. ::yes:: We had this nice print as a souvenir (which sadly I heard...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    This was on my side going out. My photo with my phone wasn’t close to these great ones Scott got. Kudos again to the big boy camera. :thumbsup2 The journey back seemed to go more quickly, but both journeys were right around 20 minutes and all too soon we were coming in to land. :sad...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    We walked along one of the trails that was close to the lake. There were wild blueberries and cranberries growing. Cranberries don’t taste good without sugar at the best of times, these were downright nasty! :scared: :laughing: The blueberries were OK, but also pretty sour and none of them...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    As soon as everyone was onboard we started taxiing to take off. It was so much fun and nowhere near as bumpy as I thought it might be. There was a narrative over the headphones for the entire flight there and back. 🛩️🛩️ 31[/url'] 32[/url'] 32-1[/url'] Fair warning here that we took a LOT...
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    First trip to the final frontier - 8 night Alaska - 9/11/23 - completed

    Friday, September 15th – Juneau Peeking outside this morning at about 6:30 am, I could see that we were sailing past signs of life, and so figured we were pretty close to docking. Today we had the Taku Glacier Lodge Feast & 5-Glacier Seaplane Discovery tour booked (again, not through DCL) and...
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