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Alaskan Cruise  —  May 2013

Setting off from Seattle  —  Sunday

To begin our cruise, we flew to Seattle.

Our cruise line, Holland-America, and I

would guess every cruise company, is

extremely well-organized. They have

employees everywhere at the airport to

direct their arriving passengers to the

buses that will transport them to the

ships. it would be virtually impossible

to mess up and miss your connection.

Near the buses, we had a short wait

while they coordinated how many

people needed to get to which pier.

Here are Sally and D, my dear

friends, and gracious hosts,

having a snack while waiting

for our bus.

You see that the Holland-America

agent has already assigned us to

the “Green team,” so we simply

had to listen for our color to be

called out, and then be directed

to the bus that would get us to

the correct pier.

Nothing could have been a better 70th birthday present, in May of 2013, than to be invited to share a week with my great friends, Sally and D. And, as frosting on the cake, to have that week spent on an Alaskan cruise — a new experience for me!.

The only real pain in the neck was the LONG wait in line to get

through the security check—true both to get on the ship as

well as on the planes. But we eventually got aboard the good

ship Oosterdam, feeling fine, and ready to start our cruise!

Before sailing, I had the chance to shoot a

photo of Seattle’s famous “Space Needle.”

I even took a shot of myself, with the

land disappearing in the background.

And once we began steaming away, around 4:30 p.m., I got a long shot of Seattle’s skyline.

Out into Puget Sound, we were on our way!

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