Cruising

Saturday 28th May Cruising the high seas Today we woke to a bright sky and reasonably gentle seas. We were to have an “at sea” day so after a delicious breakfast in the “Sapphire Dining Room”, we set off to explore the ship a little more. We met up with many of the people from our Canada trip in one of the many bars  just to share our contacts with each other.  We did a little shopping in the shopping mall and Rob bought himself a reversible Alaskan jacket at a very good price. After another delicious lunch (I hate to think how much weight we are putting on), we went to a wonderful ice-skating show at the ice rink. It was based around that seasons and the music, costumes and  skaters were excellent. The ice-skating rink has space for an audience of about 600. We had been rostered to attend at a certain time depending on which section your cabin was in. The quality of the show was equal to shows that you would pay $100 a ticket for, back home. After this we headed to Starbucks for coffee. As our dinner tonight was classed as “formal” we thought we  better head back to our cabin to “dress up” for dinner. There are only 2 of these dinners during our trip so it wasn’t too taxing for Rob and Paul to dress up. You really don’t need to dress up if you don’t want to but it seemed that the majority of people in our dining restaurant had and some of the women were wearing long evening dresses and all their jewels. Dinner was again just amazing and after dinner, seeing we were all dressed up we headed to the palace theatre to watch a show. Again the show was spectacular. Brilliant, singers, dancers, costumes, backing band and prop sets. It was just like a show you would see at the  Festival Theatre in Adelaide. The music and songs were extremely popular songs of the last 40 years e.g. music from Fame, Saturday Night Fever, Flash dance etc. After this we headed back to our cabin for an early night ready for our excursions in Juneau tomorrow.