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The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 3 Cruise to Alaska


The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 3
Today we were going on our cruise to Alaska. After a quick breakfast we left for my aunt’s house to drop off some suitcases. We had an hour so we stayed there and spent some time. She showed us this cool robot called Roomba which could clean up her house while she was at work. It would clean areas by vacuuming and brushing up the unwanted dust. She also had something called Alexa. It was developed by Amazon. You could ask her any question and she would answer. She would play music when asked and could do many things. But soon we had to go and leave for the next part of our trip.

We were going on a cruise to Alaska and some parts of Canada with the Norwegian Cruise Line aboard the Norwegian Jewel. Since Seattle is where many of their cruises start, they had a full building for themselves and the operation of getting the keys went very smoothly. We had to go through some complicated procedures before we were allowed to board the ship. But finally by 2:30 we were sitting in our staterooms. The staterooms were so cool. When you entered it would look like a two bedroom room but there was another bed that would open up like a train bed. As I was about to jump on the bed, the fire alarm went off. Okay. Amazing welcome. We weren’t even at sea and there was a fire.

We got out of our room and there was a man who was asking us to look at our key cards. On our key cards there was a letter and we had to assemble at our stations. And after sometime you could hear the guy saying we were going to be safe. The power rangers had come. Yeah! We were safe!
Okay. False alarm. Fire drill. Bummer.

After the whole hullabaloo we searched for a place to eat and were told the Garden Cafe. Straight after food we began exploring the ship and at 6 it set sail. This ship was so awesome. Here are something’s that were on the ship-

Card room stocked with cards and family board games
Library with book take out and return.
Two swimming pools and a slide + six hot tubs
Different cuisines in different restaurants
A theatre with different plays and movies that houses about 800 people.
Three ping pong tables
Three shuffleboard decks
A sports deck
A jogging track
BINGO (played four times and once won $150)
Spa
Gym                                                                                                           

Casinos
Sadly no WIFI( however somebody had their personal hotspot as ‘Tell my WIFI I love her’)
And many more things

The ship was huge. It had 15 decks and 20 lifeboats which could hold more than 50 people. It had rations to last long and many more things. The ship could house about 4500 people and had 1081 staff. I still wonder how the ship stayed upright. So every port we stopped on we tripled the population. There was also a carpet that ran through the entire ship. The fish were all facing towards the forward of the ship so if you couldn’t find you room you could follow it towards it. The theatre, The Stardust Theatre, had new shows every night. Today they had the show, The Cirque Bijou, which was a type of circus. It had the most death defying acts and acrobats and you wouldn’t feel like you’re on a ship. It would boggle your mind and amaze you on how they managed to have all of this on a ship.

While exploring I found a plaque that said that Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, was the godmother of the ship. And I’m like OH MY GOD!!!! The ships gonna sink! We have to get out of here!!!!!!! (Say that in your best Terminator voice)

After exploring the ship it was time for dinner and no surprise we went to the Garden Cafe, the place that was going to be our home for the next 7 days. These guys were so big on health and sanitation before you enter any food place they would spray your hand with sanitiser. They even had this ridiculous song which they would sing every time you came in. It went something like this-

Washy washy good for you
Good me
Good for us
Washy washy everyday
Makes us happy
(To the tune of London Bridge is falling down’)

And they are like ninjas. The next day I went there at 6 am and they jump out of nowhere and are like Washy Washy.

(Imagine you are confronted by a ninja in black who is holding hand sanitiser where his sword should be. I mean, how scary can that get? The thought of them makes me shiver)(okay maybe I exaggerated a bit. They were very nice people who took their job very seriously and were just helping us out.)(but the thought of the hand sanitiser still makes………. You know what? Forget it)

The day had been long and before you know it we were in bed snoring away.

 

6 replies on “The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 3 Cruise to Alaska”

Hi Raghav

This is awesome.. feel like i am with you guys reading this.

Really liked hearing about the ship. must have been quite the experience. Did anybody feel sea sick?

Lots of love
masi

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