9th May 2025

This was another cruise day. We set off from Ketchikan after 6.30 pm the previous day, sailed all night, then all of Friday and Friday night .This takes us back to Vancover for the morning of Saturday. We were given instructions on packing, where to leave our luggage, or to handle our own luggage. We chose to handle our own luggage, leaving us free to leave on Saturday at the time of our choosing.

Today, not a lot happened, plenty of eating, some drinking, trying to use our 15 drinks a day package. Quite a challenge, even when this includes the purchase of espressos and cappuccinos. In the dining room, the waiters put on a little farewell show. We did listen to some music in the rolling stones lounge. The band there was OK. The couple on the pianos in the other bar not exactly to either of our tastes, and that was not because they did not play our suggestions; just banged hard on the keys.

We also looked at the shops, trying to spend our ‘free’ money allowance, instead we gave some of it away as a tip to our waiter, who came back thinking we had made a mistake in the tip.