A full day at sea on our way to Ketchikan

This morning started pretty early for me.  I had read of a Photoshopping lecture and series that was going to start at 9 a.m.  I awoke at 4 am due to the ships horn going off a few times.  Nothing serious, just enough to wake most passengers from their sleep.

Awake again at just about 8am, time to dress, run for a quick small plate of food and then to the lecture.  My wife was just waking up as I finished dressing and leaving.  At the Photo Shop Elements 6 lecture the instructor, Tim Greene, told of the different classes he would be holding during the cruise.

  Each class was to be one hour long and only eight would be able to sign up due to the lack of computers. Each of the classes would be different and each would be held only once.  I had taken my notebook computer with me and showed the instructor some of my work and he agreed that I probably wouldn’t get more than one or two small tips from the lectures and I could probably teach the classes if he got sick.  I also realized that with the small number of computers I would be keeping someone else from the fun of learning, and there were more than twenty at the opening lecture, so at the end I decided to keep my $25 per lesson and try to find my wife in the buffet breakfast area.  I had no success there but finally caught up with her at the line dancing lessons just after 10 a.m.  She has wanted to learn line dancing for a long time.  The group of dancers was quite large, maybe 50 to 75.  The instructor taught four different song dances during that first session and promised to not only recap and redo the previous but add new dances at each lesson.    

Dinner tonight was formal, and after checking the menu at the normal dining room we chose to eat at the Bayou Steakhouse where I could get a fillet mignon and my wife could get a lobster tail.  This is one of the two specialty restaurants onboard, and they charge extra just to eat here and then charge again if you wish to have a lobster tail.  We made a reservation for 7:30pm and made our way around the ship doing a little sightseeing while waiting for the day to pass.  When the time came we dressed and went down for our special meal.  Our waiter was excellent at listening to our requests and did a wonderful job of delivering a very superior meal with special little touches that made both my wife and I very pleased.  All the way through a Great meal with very superior service!  We never did try the other specialty restaurant; Sabatini’s is the Italian multi-course restaurant where you can spend two or three hours eating.

After dinner we strolled the ship and listened to the various music at the lounges, piano bars, and open venues.  It kinda felt good to be dressed up for once.  And finally, knowing we would need to be up early in the morning for our short visit to Ketchikan we headed back to our stateroom for the evening.