Cruising to Alaska! Day 1

After two years of marriage, Brent and I finally had our Honeymoon! We decided to take a cruise to Alaska!!!! Our trip started out by flying to Seattle, Washington. This is the view from the plan looking at the Grand Canyon.

Grandma and her friends at the Senior Center were on the same cruise! It was great to hang out with her and her friends. Grandma and I are modeling our custom made Alaska t-shirts created by Uncle Scott. The shirts say "Alaska 2010" on one side and each person's name on the other.

This is our spectacular cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas. The ship had 2,239 passengers plus 770 crew members.

Before getting on the ship, each person had to get their picture taken to be linked to their room card. The room card was more commonly known as your Sea Pass Card. This card was used to get on and off the ship, into your room, and to purchase anything on the ship.

Our lovely windowless state room was fairly small. This is pretty much it. Needless to say, you could go to sleep anytime in here because when the lights were out, it was pitch BLACK!

If you think the room was small, here is the itty bitty bathroom.

The hallway where our room was located was SUPER long and narrow. This is a view of only half of the hallway. Brent's parents also happened to be on the same cruise as us. After we found our rooms, we explored the ship together. Here Brent and his Dad are lounging around the deck 9 pool. This is the outside pool. Although it was heated, I didn't want to get in and out of this pool when the outside temperature was 50 degrees or less. Brrrrrr....

This is what you could look at while you were lounging around by the outside pool.

At the back end of the ship, there was a rock climbing wall. When the ship was cruising in the open seas, it was very WINDY back here.

This is the indoor pool. It was nice and warm in here. There were also ping pong tables in here. Lots of things to do.

This is the view from the Centrum. This is in the middle of the ship. Floors 5, 6, 7, and 8 have balcony's looking into this area. It is a beautiful part of the ship and a great lounging area.

This video clip will show you around the Centrum from the 4th floor where it begins.

Every night we attended a show in the Broadway Melodies Theater. It was a huge auditorium with sofa like seating, very comfortable. The first show we attended, we sat in the balcony. The first show was a comedy act.

The first day of our trip was spent exploring the ship. We left the Seattle port around 5pm. The rest of the evening we cruised through the Puget Sound and out into the Pacific Ocean. As I have never been on a ship before, it was exciting to be out on deck watching the ship pull out of the harbor. It was cool and windy. We had beautiful views of the homes along the shoreline as well as harbors filled with sailboats. We were both anxious to see what a full day on the open sea would be like!