Last night I had the pleasure of experiencing Casual Dining. (It’s the little things you appreciate when you’ve been eating at the pasta station for 9 days straight…) Casual Dining is a little mini-restaurant on Deck 10, where all the other buffet stations are. Crew have to fill out a request to dine there, usually 48 hours in advance. Some friends of mine had filled out a request for 4 diners and needed a 4th, so I came along. It was nice to dress up and be served. I have to admit, it’s sometimes hard watching these passengers get wined and dined while we can’t enjoy any of the amazing privileges we see all around us. But, as Ellen would say, why would I PAY to go on a cruise when I can get someone to pay ME to go on a cruise? The job certainly has its perks but ultimately you are there to serve the paying guests, so it’s nice to be served for a change. The meal includes an appetizer, soup, salad, entrée, and dessert – all for the mere price of a $2 tip (I told you the job has its perks). But of course the view was the best part; we had an amazing sail away from Ketchikan.
This morning I woke up early and got to see the tail end of the Tracy Arm Fjord (see picture). Seeing a glacier live and in living color is pretty incredible. The Fjord also has a lot of floating ice - some pieces as large as a 3-story building and others that are just bite size. We cruise (very slowly and carefully) through Stephen's Passage to be able to view the Fjord. Tracy Arm is an area covering almost 700,000 acres, and is full of active glaciers. A glacier is a perennial mass of ice which moves over land. A glacier forms where there is a massive accumulation of snow and ice. Glaciers provide the largest reservoir of fresh water on Earth. Glacial ice gets its blue tint from the absorption of red light due to molecular overtones.
Favorite passenger question of the day (on formal gala night) : “If we forgot our clothes, can we still eat?”
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