July 31, 2014 - Tracy Arm Fjord

Michael and I got up early to see and take sunrise pictures.

It got a little chilly up there.

Roger came up a little later.

The fog started rolling in.  We headed back inside for breakfast

Luckily by the time we headed out on our Tracy Arm Fjord boat tour the fog had gone away. So we left the ship to get on a boat that could take us close to the shore.










Right of the bat we saw a bear and her 3 cubs.

Vince and Fred stayed inside.

Roger, Dennis, Michael and I stayed outside.  Elaine and Judy would go back and forth.

I could not imagine being in a rubber boat out in that freezing water with glacier ice that are bigger than the boat.

We were able to get a lot closer to the glacier than the ship could.

They fished out a chunk of glacier ice out of the water to make glacier margaritas.

The blue color in the glacier was beautiful.

We got back on the ship grabbed some lunch and then headed to Super Trivia.  Later we all went to the family friendly comedy shows.

As we walked around after dinner we went out on deck to admire the sunset.  One of these don't belong can you guess which one?

Roger and Dennis wanted to go to Jazz and Cigars Under the Stars.

So Lynn and I joined them.

Roger gave a cigar to John Heald our Cruise Director.

I ended up leaving them all there and went to bed after the music was done.

July 30, 2014 - Fun Day at Sea

Jenna, Corinne and I went to crafts this morning and luckily Roger came and met us there.  We quickly put him to work untangling our thread.

We took our craft with us to the shore excursion talk and again kept Roger busy untangling our thread.

The day passed quickly with trivia, tea, comedy shows and elegant night.  When we got back to our room we had our platinum cruiser gifts and the invitation for the past guest party.

July 28, 2014 - Duck Tour

This morning we decided we would try biscuits and gravy at this little hole in the wall place that we had seen the last time we were in Seattle.  Of course we decided to go here after we had walked a mile the other way.  We then separated from each other, Roger headed back to the hotel....

and I went to Burnt District Salon to get my hair cut.
I loved their little greeters.

When I got done we headed to the Space Needle to meet up with Ed & Sarah.  We had heard on the news that the Blue Angels would be making a fly-by at 12:30.

We heard and saw them off in the distance but they did not fly by but landed at the Boeing Museum.















We did meet up with Ed and Sarah and we took the monorail & then walked to Pikes Market.

We had worked up an appetite so we thought we would just walk up a street to a Mexican food restaurant.  Well Roger got onto Yelp and found out that it had bad ratings so we kept walking.   We finally stopped at Taco Del Mar.

After lunch we went to meet the Gregory's who were waiting for us at the Duck tour location by the Space Needle.  Well when we tried to by tickets guess what....they were sold out at this location.  They did have tickets available for the tour leaving from the city center.  So we were back on the monorail since no one wanted to walk again.

Quackers are ready.

We passed by some interesting art work.

Our driver was great.  He kept playing different songs and changing his hat (which matched the song) to match what we may be seeing.

As we sailed around Lake Union he pointed out the floating house from Sleepless in Seattle.

The difference between a house boat and floating house is that the floating home is built on a floating base but does not move from its location except up and down with the water level.  A house boat could leave the dock at anytime with its motor.

We had a beautiful view of the Seattle Skyline.

As we finished off the tour he changed hats again and led us in a sing a long with Village People and YMCA.



When we finished the tour we headed back to our hotel and the rest of them took the monorail back to the Space Needle and then their hotels.

July 29, 2014 - Hello Carnival Miracle

All packed up and ready to go, but wait it is only 8:00 so now what do we do.

Well we took the bags to the car and then headed to Top Pot for donuts and coffee.  The timing worked out pretty good because by the time we drove to the Seattle Cruise Park it was 10.  The shuttle picked us up right at our car and we were off to the port.  We arrived quickly and were able to hand over our bags to the porter just as the doors opened to allow us into the terminal. We were onboard by 11:00.

After dropping our carry on bags off in the cabin we headed up to Lido to await everyone else.  The USS Essex came into port next to us.  It was quite a picture to see all those sailors standing at rest on deck.

Most of us had Muster Station A.  These 3 were behind me during the muster drill.

After muster drill we were all to meet up on the top deck to take a group picture.  I had really hoped to have Mt Rainier as our backdrop.

Instead we have the slide as our backdrop.  We couldn't do the picture on Lido because the Serenity area is there and they do not allow anyone under 21 to be out there.

Once we were finally done with all the pictures we explored the ship.  I took the girls up to the O2 room hoping that they would join in the activities with others their age on the cruise....it didn't happen.

Thought this bench outside of the O2 room was cute with the boot legs.

We walked through Gatsby's Garden on deck 3 which is a fun little walkway inside around the front of the ship.

We then headed to deck 1 to see the Mad Hatter's Ball Lounge.  We ended up spending a lot of time in this room throughout the week.

We also picked up a little something from the Tasting Bar.  The Future Cruise Desk just happened to open up while we were sitting and enjoying our snack.  So of course I had to jump up and book our cruise for 2016.

We did a little rearranging for the seating at the dinner table so that we sat with the Gregory's and he rest of the family sat at a larger table next to us.

After dinner it was the Welcome Aboard Show, which I didn't want to miss since John Heald is our cruise director.  It was one of those shows that you laughed so hard you cried.