dixie_belle
Well-Known Member
I just picked some pictures of our trip, at random. If this is posted in the wrong place, feel free to move it.
We had a fanastic room with a balcony on deck 10. We could literally sit on our sofa and watch Alaska go by. I would jump up every now and then and click off a picture or two. Those pesky whales are so fast....I couldn't get my camera up fast enough. But we did see some whales, some orca, lots of dolphins and some bald eagles. One of the eagles actually caught a fish right in front of me and preceeded to eat it on a buoy in the water. How cool is that???
We had done a ton of research on cruise lines prior to making our decision to use Norwegian. And it's funny, when you read the reviews, there would be a wonderful review and a really pittiful one...and they were both talking about the exact same cruise. I got pretty much what I had expected. Our room was fantastic. The food (in the sit down restaurants) was really good. The menu might be a tad limited but I didn't get anything that wasn't fantastically tasty. And the lobster was probably the best I've ever had. (I thought my hubby was going to grow some gills, he ate so much salmon.)
There was almost always some sort of entertainment going on. And since hubby and I LOVE performance music, we really enjoyed all of that. Oh, and if you cruise Norwegian, and do the trivia contests, do your homework before you leave. The questions are really, really hard!!! We were pathetic.
We had a fantastic time, our "chub" suits were a big hit. Everyone wanted to take our picture in them. Norwegian has a "signature" party on every cruise. It's called the white hot party. They have music and black lights and everyone dresses in white so you sorta glow. We knew about it from our research. We couldn't be normal.....oh no, not us. Hence our white suits. It was so much fun.
Honestly, at first I didn't think the cruise would be worth the trip up there because it's pretty brutal. But I will freely admit that I was wrong. It was fantastic. Just to get away and be together and see that beautiful scenery. And we got to relax. (and eat, that goes without saying). One night at dinner they had a chocolate buffet. OMG. Of course we filled our plates before dinner then I could only eat one dessert because dinner was so good. Hubby ate all 6 of his, plus the other two on my plate that I couldn't eat. His reasoning: He heard that chocolate prevents scurvy and he really, really hates scurvy. LOL He pretty much had dessert all day long. I didn't think he could eat that much ice cream but apparantly I was wrong. LOL
