September 24, 2007
I finally got to go on my Crab Feed that I wanted to do for so long! It was an awesome excursion. We went out to the George Inlet Lodge in Ketchikan where we boarded a very small crabbing boat that took us out to the inlet where we pulled up 2 crab pots. Because we didn’t have fishing licenses, the lodge has to say the excursion is for research purposes. We pulled up the first pot and there were no crabs, but 2 extremely large starfish (approx 1-1 ½ feet across). Everyone got to hold it before we pulled up the second pot. The second pot had several crabs in it where we measured and examined the health of all the crabs included. It was nice because we only had a group of 10 people on the excursion, including me and my friend Whitney. Next, we headed back to the lodge and had an oriental salad, wine, all you can eat Dungeness crab, and blueberry cheesecake. The crab was absolutely amazing – they were huge and the meat was so sweet. There was a contest to see which table had the highest stack of crab. There were two tables of 4 and Whitney and I were at a separate table. Let’s just say we got a bit aggressive with the table next to us – for the four of them (two being teenage boys) they had 19 inches (including wine glasses stacked underneath their plate), ours was 17 inches with beer glasses underneath. It was absolutely hilarious. Everyone else was finishing their cheesecake and we were asking for more crab. Gotta love it! The cheesecake was even delicious and I don’t like cheesecake! Overall, it was tons of fun and we had a fantastic meal!
We’re in our first real day of dry dock – depends on whether or not you count yesterday. Around noon yesterday we left Vancouver after clearing off all the passengers and arrived in Victoria around 6 p.m. last night. Last night we had a big party with bingo, blackjack and music in the show lounge which was quite fun. The actual process of going into dry dock has been so neat to watch. First, as we pulled into the harbor (I guess that’s what it was) we unloaded all of the life boats and pulled them into a separate area. Then a massively large tug boat pushed us into the dock where we will spend the next two weeks. After they got us into the dock they put up the cement barricades behind the ship and begin to drain the water (think large bath tub). This morning when we woke up all the water was completely drained from the ship. We have 100’s of contractors on board that are ripping out escalators, tearing up floors and millions of other things around the ship that need to be done.
Yesterday, our job was to clean out the Entertainment Office and the entertainment lockers which only took a few hours. Today, our job was to hang up paper signs advertising the movies we’d be showing in the movie theater on board. It took a strenuous 10 minutes and we were finished with work for the day. Company money well spent J We do have Charades planned for this evening and we’re going to go into the downtown area around 3 this afternoon to see what adventure we will do today. I will keep everyone updated throughout the process.
Enjoy your week!
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