After an awesome couple of days at the Stampede, we boarded back into the 12-person bus to head to the airport en route to our Alaskan cruise. After a mini but very relaxed crisis where a forgotten credit card was put in a taxi and rushed to the airport, we boarded the plane en route to Vancouver.
The Royal Carribean's "Radiance of the Seas" cruise boat is a large one, accommodating 2,400 guests. Remarkably, however, the check-in lines moved incredibly efficiently and we were all on board (having "registered" our booze and taken the mandatory boarding photos) and carrying a loaded Royal Caribbean beer cooler bag to our lunch table within the hour.
The departure day was a gorgeous one and so we lounged on the top deck watching the kids swim in the pool as our ship departed port en route to our first port, Ketchikan. 
Our first full day was a travel day at sea. And also Beth's birthday, although she generally tries to avoid acknowledging that. We spent the day playing games in the library, enjoying long lunches and getting far too competitive about the cruise's trivia challenges. Thank goodness for nephew Adam's insistence that Mickey Mouse's original name was Mortimer or we never would have won those cruise ship key chains.
In the evening, we went to one of the ship's specialty restaurants -Giovanni's Table- for Jenn and Beth's birthday festivities. We enjoyed a great dinner, topped off by a fantastic birthday cake eating at 10.30 pm while watching the sun finally start to set.
Maybe birthdays aren't so bad after all...
Maybe birthdays aren't so bad after all...
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