{"id":17754,"date":"2019-09-17T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=17754"},"modified":"2019-09-16T20:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T03:05:54","slug":"cruising-north-to-the-49th-day-2-at-sea-scenic-cruising-the-inside-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=17754","title":{"rendered":"Cruising North to the 49th – Day 2 – “At Sea” Scenic Cruising the Inside Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunday 15th September 2019<\/strong>

I woke up a little early this morning to the ship beginning to move around.\u00a0 I checked the App and it showed we were hitting some open water. It wasn\u2019t like we were far out to sea or anything, just some open water between some of the islands in BC.\u00a0 So gone had been my protection for calm water and we had some motion. Now a lot of people would experience what we had and say \u201cwell that wasn\u2019t much\u201d and be fine with it. My anxiety had taken full control of me.\u00a0 It had stopped me from sleeping and doing much of anything.

I was pretty much frozen solid in my room for a while until Heidi woke up.\u00a0 When she woke up she let me sit for a bit before making me get up and get moving.\u00a0 We did some laps of the promenade deck and even with the motion, I felt much better.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t eat much to make sure that I was going to be ok (the Neptune Lounge had some fruit salad so I stuck with that).\u00a0 We got ourselves moving about the ship and before we knew it, we were into more calmer waters of the \u201cInside Passage\u201d. It was a good day though with plenty of stuff to keep you going.

America\u2019s Test Kitchen, some talks about Alaskan heritage etc, Trivia, all interspersed with checking on photos from Embarkation and just relaxing in the room.\u00a0 By the time the afternoon rolled around, the weather had improved, the whales were out and about around the ship and I was having a good old time! We had an early reservation tonight at the Pinnacle grill.\u00a0 It would mark the last of our complimentary specialty dinners, but that wasn\u2019t a horrible thing. It was good because it was also Gala night. So we would have to get dressed up anyway and meant that we could have a nice, special night to celebrate our anniversary.

We got dressed up, had some photos taken and had a blast enjoying ourselves while eating a fantastic steakhouse dinner.\u00a0 I had a New York Strip (I was on the Nieuw Amsterdam of course) and Heidi had the double cut pork chop. For dessert they brought out on top of what we ordered a special chocolate cake for our annivesary.\u00a0 We never cut into it but they wrapped it up for us to take back to our room (which seems silly for on a cruise ship).

We went to the Main Stage for the captains toast, and then watched the comedian.\u00a0 Jim Short was an Aussie who had spent time in many countries and now does his time on the cruise ships.\u00a0 It was funny to see him and there was a lot of Aussie\u2019s in the crowd. By the time we got back from dinner\/evening we were heading back out to see.\u00a0 Hello anxiety and this time before going to bed, I took a sea sickness tablet and I managed to fall asleep without vomiting. That was good.
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Sunday 15th September 2019 I woke up a little early this morning to the ship beginning to move around.\u00a0 I checked the App and it showed we were hitting some open water. It wasn\u2019t like we were far out to sea or anything, just some open water between some of the islands in BC.\u00a0 So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1723,8,1,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-alaska-2019","category-expat","category-life-in-general","category-travelling","category-tripreports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-4Cm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17755,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions\/17755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}