Final Cruising Day

Day seven started early. We arrived at the Hubbard Glacier around 6am. Chad and I were up to the top deck to view it closer to 7am but we still had an entire hour to enjoy it. It was awesome. We were able to get really close and we really had the best weather Alaska had to offer because even the week before they could not get close enough and it was really foggy. We had no obstructions and it calved the entire time.

There was a naturalist on board talking about the glacier and then the captain started talking over the loud speaker and encouraged us to all yell at the glacier at the same time causing it to pick up it's action. That was so cool. Speaking of cool, the temperature near the glacier is super-duper cold, that's why we all have our hats and gloves on for the first time all week. It was pretty awesome and I love glaciers, isn't this one beautiful?

Well, we ran out of time to look at the glacier and needed to head to Seward where the cruise ship would dump all of us 2000 and some passengers and pick up another 2000+ passengers all within eight hours time the next day.

We went to breakfast and did our own thing again. Chad had his Karaoke Superstar finals and we had some big BINGO prizes to play for. It was a casual dinner, actually calling for Alaskan attire, I had my puffy vest on and we even saw some sweatpants in the formal dining room. People were starting to wind down.

I didn't make it past dinner again, Chad tried to find some trouble but just about everyone else on the ship was in their rooms for the night too. Must have been the comfort food themed dinner that really sealed the deal for us.

The cruise was really a great experience. It was a lot of fun. I would go on a cruise again and I never even thought I'd want to do one. I had a blast, Alaska is so beautiful and it was great to share the experience with Chad's parents. We keep hearing that they may just do another one and that would be wonderful.