OFF THE SHIP AND INTO ANCHORAGE

Yayyyyy!!!!  Back to real wifi.  I am sitting all sunk down in the most comfortable armchair in a lovely hotel room in the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage.  I have to admit that I am totally impressed with how Princess organizes everything.

We got up this morning and packed our meagre belongings that we were allowed to keep.  Everything else had to be packed and put out the night before in the hallway.  We left the stateroom by 8 like the good little passengers that we are and headed up to the Lido...food trough deck.  We had a very leisurely breakfast, killing as much time as possible until our meeting time downstairs at 9:30.  When we got down there the dining room was full.  But, when they called us we strolled straight off the ship and into a bus.  On our way to Anchorage we stopped at a wildlife refuge/park.  Very enjoyable and saw moose, bears (really honking huge big brown bears), caribou, elk, deer, muskox etc...and a very expensive crowded gift store.

In Anchorage we were dropped off at the cruise centre down town and with the couple of hours of free time we headed down to the outdoor market.  It was so hot and soooo busy!  And truthfully I have never seen so many really huge overweight people and huge hairy dogs anywhere.  Not even in Maui where the people are known for their size.  These people were white and huge...morbidly so.  I wonder why?  Maybe the long cold winters and not eating properly.  Its funny, when you walk around a city certain things will jump out at you.  Here...there were a lot more posters for meetups for teens and signs painted on buildings warning against a drug or living on the streets lifestyle.  There were also a lot of places one could go to get nutritional help...way more than one normally sees elsewhere.  So, I think they may have a problem here with these issues.

When we got back to the cruise centre a bus was waiting for all of us, took us directly to the hotel where a lovely lady was standing at the entrance with our room keys and our itinerary for the next day, oh and more confusing luggage tags.  Oh well we must have done something right because when we got up to our fabulous room our little bags were sitting there waiting for us.  And they are being picked up again tomorrow morning at 6 a.m.  I can't wait to get on the train!!!  But right now I want dinner, with or without Bill.  He ate a whole plate load of deep fried halibut and chips and hush puppies at 3 and isn't hungry.  I didn't and I am.  So I am going to go get dinner and he can stay here if he likes!

Well he came along.  We just went downstairs and he had a bread bowl of chili and I had a bread bowl of seafood chowder...sooooo delicious.  It was nice to have a finite choice of food for dinner for a change!  Now we are back in our room on our laptops and I am trying to keep Bill from commenting on my pics I post on fb.  I don't like him commenting and I am always going in a deleting them!  Anyway...I am going to try to post some pics here...sorry they probably won't be all that interesting, just a test.  TTYL  looks like it worked!

THE SNOW PLOUGH PART OF THE TRAIN

IT WAS A LONG WAY DOWN ON THE BACK OF THAT TRAIN

FOR 35 BUCKS YOU CAN STAY IN THIS CABOOSE...ITS ALL SET UP BUT NO ELECTRICITY AND A LOOOOONG WAY FROM NOWHERE

I LOVED HIS SHEET MUSIC..HE WAS PLAYING BEEHTOVAN'S PATHETIQUE

DRIPPING ICE CREAM

AN EPISODE OF TOP CHEF WAS DONE RIGHT HERE

THIS IS WHAT I AM LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW!

I HAVE WRINKLES AROUND MY EARS!!!