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Where are you going to go when it’s cold and dreary in Boise? OK, this year we wanted to combine a bit of sun with the opportunity to check out a Viking Ocean ship – Can we actually live in one of these cabins for 4 1/2 months?
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Sigh. Up at 4:45, and downstairs by 5:20 The airport was, well, and airport. You’ve been there. Even at 6:00 AM (especially at 6:00 AM) we were extremely grateful for PreCheck. The flights were, well, flights. 4 hours to Atlanta, 5 hours to LA, 2 hours to Boise, with reasonable layovers at each stop we […]
OK, so… Sea day. We had nowhere to be at any particular time (except we had a room service delivery scheduled for 8:15). So of course we were awake at 6:00. Managed to stay in bed until the alarm went off, then it was up, spit, exercise, and breakfast on the veranda. As luck would
To start with, today was pretty much a bust. The excursion was a bust. Trivia was horrible (How is it that I can’t remember that it was Google who bought YouTube?). And the announcement that we heard as we were making our way from the Explorers’ Lounge (trivia) to the Theatre (Port Talk) just kind-of
When we booked future cruises (See Day 5 – 1/6/22 post) we received $400 cruise credits to us on this trip. That’s a whole lot of booze. So we flipped a coin – heads we spend it on spa treatments, tails we change our Day 8 excursion to a day pass at an all-inclusive resort
Today was Whale Watching Day!!!!! We wandered down the pier to our bus where we were whisked away to the boat. We then left the port riding the swells in the best ‘bucking bronco’ manner. Sadly, there was no wildlife (except several schools of flying fish and a few Turns and Boobies trying to catch
First, a bit of context. I’m actually writing this on Monday, January 10. We’re docked in St. Maarten (the Dutch side) But enough about me. Here’s the deal with Dominica. Our excursion wasn’t till 1:30 so we took full advantage: Up, 3 miles, breakfast on the veranda, linger over hot beverages, read, post to the
The day started like so many others: spit test, exercise, room service breakfast on the veranda. The morning was, however, different because we were in the midst of a run from St. Kitts all the way down to Barbados at the end of the chain. Thus, we weren’t scheduled to dock until noon. This left
Shipboard life is finally settled enough that I could work in an early morning (7:00) walk. The prominod around deck 2 is exactly 1/4 mile so 12 quick laps and I was ready for Breakfast. Cheryl decided that walking later was much preferable so as I was leaving room service showed up with ‘first breakfast’
Up at an uncivilized hour as we docked at Road Town on the Island of Tortola (Spanish for “Turtle”) After a quick breakfast (sorry, no food photos this morning) we donned ‘wet hiking’ gear… to meet our group for our excursion to Virgin Gorda (The Fat Virgin) – Columbus saw the highest hill and declared
When last we heard from our intrepid explorers they had poured themselves into bed in the wee small hours of the morning. Before we retired we hung a room service breakfast order on our door with a requested delivery time of 9:00. Room service was important for this meal because we were quarantined in our