Headed to the ship

We found a nice breakfast place while walking back yesterday, The Crumpet Shop.  It's only 1/2 block away from our hotel and has hot egg, cheese and ham crumpets. What's a crumpet?  It's the size of an english muffin only with a smoother surface.  Very tasty!  If we come back, we plan to visit them again. 

Next up is packing and getting ready to head to the ship. We have not unpacked very much, but you still need to get it all back in the suitcase.  Lyft does not pickup at this hotel anymore, but the front desk says that Uber does so we'll be using them to head to the ship around 11am.  We have a target boarding time of 11:30 so that should work out just fine.  Princess and Holland-America share the same dock as you can see from their picture on the right that I took yesterday.  We'll have the Star Princess next to us today.   We sail  way at 3pm.   More to come once we are on board!

No issues getting to the ship.  Uber pickup was smooth, but, having been spoiled by priority boarding on Princess, today we had to get a boarding group card and wait about 1/2 hour before going on board.  But the good news was that by the time we were called, all cabins were ready. We dropped off our carry-ons and headed to lunch in the buffet.  

After lunch, we did the mandatory muster drill tasks, then said good bye to Seattle.  Not many ship pictures today, just the Lido deck pool.  

I spent much of the afternoon spending on board credit $$ on two additional shore excursions, getting our online access setup and other cruise day1 tasks.

The picture on the left is one that Mary took this afternoon of the sailboat we rode yesterday.  

Dinner went well, if a bit slow. Mary had a salmon linguini and I had pork medallions, all very good.   

There was a Welcome Show in the evening to introduce the entertainers.  The band played a nice medley of hits  followed by the singers and dancers performing several numbers.  They were quite good and it sounds like we'll have production shows every second or third evening.

So we are on the ship and have two sea days before we reach Kodiak on Wednesday.