We had a great night's sleep & now we are ready to start our touring. We can't board the ship until 1:00 pm but we are supposed to be out of our hotel room by 11:00 am. The hotel is obviously used to having us cruisers around because they have a room that they lock luggage in while we are waiting to board the ship. (which we took complete advantage of)
We checked out some of our tour options & decided upon the Big Bus. When we bought our tickets, we didn't know that the ticket was good for 2 days! Not only that, but we could use our 2nd day when we got back from our cruise. That was great because we could just relax on this tour & pick out places we wanted to check out more when we got back for our 2nd day of touring.
Here are views of the Vancouver Armory, our ship in the distance & the port at Canada Place
After a nice lunch, we got our luggage & a taxi & headed for the ship. We were early enough that we missed the usual crowd waiting to get on board & practically went straight on. Of course we had the obligatory boarding picture taken.
our stateroom
at 4:15 we had our Emergency & Lifeboat drill... everyone had to attend but we got to wear these designer jackets :)
At 5:00 pm we were under way & heading for our first stop, Juneau
approaching the Lion's Gate Bridge
Once underway, the "welcome aboard" party began.
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