Today, we spent the entire day heading south to Canada, or more specifically to Vancouver. Life on a ship this size is varied and there's never an excuse to be bored. At lunch we saw a second 'Cake Me Away' presentation on the Lido deck. It was at lunch time and now seems as if it is a new Holland America tradition.
I've been so stuffed this cruise I wasn't much into sampling these deserts. However, they looked nice and I had a sliver of carrot cake and the Almond Rocha.
The 'Inside Passage' means travelling between islands and the mainland and avoiding the open sea. Much of our northward journey between the mainland of British Columbia and Vancouver Island was after dark. When heading south, however, we got much more of the dramatic scenery. The only way to see this area is when on a boat as no roads run up along the edge of the coast.
It was our last dinner in the main dining hall and the staff marched through singing a happy Indonesian song about waiting to see us again. We ate four nights in the formal dining room and it is always a pleasure to try to wonderful dishes and excellent service.
We are going to bed knowing that we will have to be up early tomorrow. We put out our suitcase in the hall tonight and will pick them up at Vancouver Port tomorrow before 9:30 am. That's when all the guest must be off the ship. They need to rush to make everything shipshape for a new set of guests for next week's identical cruise. The ms Koningsdam will do this weekly run to the Alaskan ports all summer and depart for Hawaii in October.
