All Aboard - ms Volendam

Wednesday morning, and we met our tour director - Serge, a very nice Swiss ex-patriot. Our transfer from the hotel to onboard the ms Volendam went smoothly with minimal delays during the Customs and Immigration process at the Port. The ms Volendam will be our home for the next 3 nights, then we disembark at Skagway to commence the 10 day "land content" portion of our tour. After that it's another ship - the ms Ryndam for 7 continous nights back to Vancouver.
Our "Stateroom Suite" is magnificent, complete with personal loungeroom & verandah plus every conceivable luxury from stocked bar & fridge to large flat screen LCD TV and DV player etc. If we have time, DVD's are available at no cost to "suite" occupants from a huge library. We reckon it will take us most of the 16 hours of daylight time to fully investigate and make use of all the fantastic on-board facilities. So far we have attended a mandatory life boat drill (hillarious), a Las Vegas type show, a Welcome Aboard party, a magnificent dinner, checked out the bars, 3 restaurants, live entertainment options, shops, casino, pools, spas, the theatre as well as attending a run down on the multitude of the activities; lectures, wildlife talks, naturalilst lectures etc. etc. Maybe we might have to forego some of these activities in order to get more than two or three hours sleep.....
We have just put in our first night sleep - very smooth, only a slight rolling effect at present, until we reach the sheltered waters of the Inside Passage.
Well folks, must be off now - it's time for breakfast, Thursday.
Kevin & Gail

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