This is the first in a series of blog posts about our Alaskan cruse. We traveled with Celebrity Cruises on the Celebrity Infinity, round trip from Seattle. The cruise took us to to port stops in Ketchikan, Juneau, and Victoria BC. We also had 3 days of cruising, in the Pacific Ocean, up to Hubbard Glacier, and through the Canadian inside passage (east of Vancouver Island).
We departed on May 22nd, from Seattle. This is the first Seattle round trip cruise of the year for the Infinity. Since we followed the repositioning cruise, we actually were not scheduled to depart Seattle until 11:59pm. Our cruise documents said not to arrive at the port until 7pm. Because of bus schedules and us being ready way ahead of time, we arrived at the pier around 7pm. The ship actually wasn’t there yet! (Not that I was surprised). So we dropped off our luggage and filled out our health forms and got the boarding information. Since the ship wasn’t going to board until 8:30 or 9:00 and we had a high boarding number (#29), we decided to get dinner elsewhere. (All of the pictures from day 1 are available at http://picasaweb.google.com/mike.helmick/AlaskaCruise2009SeatteDays12.)