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Check-In This really didn't take too long to navigate, at least not when getting on. |
Whale-Watching Statue I'm not really sure why this was necessary, but it was cute, and essentially just above our stateroom. |
Commercial Dock Facilities I found these somewhat interesting, even if they aren't much to look at here. |
Commercial Dock Facilities, II Just think how much stuff goes through them every day, though... |
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Loading Passengers We got there early, so we didn't have to wait in line. Hooray! |
A728 Aloha Deck, room 728. On the port aft side of the ship, fairly close to the exit. |
Nameplate "Fincantieri / Cantieri Navili Italiani / Stabilimento Do Monfalcone / Costr. 5909 / Anno 1995". I assume it's when the ship was christened. |
Another Ship A Royal Caribbean ship was loading behind us. |
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Clearing Out The loading was drying up, so soon we would depart! |
Seattle and Parking Lot The background is a tad more attractive than the foreground, yes? |
Beth She decided it'd be fun to take pictures of her self. |
Beth, II This is more difficulty to do with an SLR than most cameras. |
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Muster Station C We were actually on our way to the muster station as I took this photo. The motion may tip you off to the fact that we were going the wrong way. *sigh* |
At our Muster Station At least the thing was inside. And had guys in nice yellow hats. (Hi, Lee!) |
More Commercial Docking Look, it's being unloaded! |
Watching the Departure I think that taking pictures of people watching as we left was as much fun as actually leaving. |
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Norwegian Pearl Little did we know how many times we'd see this ship on our journeys... |
Space Needle Not a bad picture, from a long distance. |
Our Hotel The night before, we'd stayed at the Inn at the Market. It amused me to find it again. (It's on the right.) |
Landing Airplane The Depth of Field made this shot interesting, at least. |
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Loan Seagull There weren't that many of them around. Darn. |
Video Camera Guy I saw him once, and only once. He got me on tape, because my camera was large. Whee. |
Seattle Yep. That's a city alright. |
Horizon Lines Ship There go the shipping containers! |
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Barges Dragging the stuff out to sea? I can't tell what it is, but it looks like dirt. Oh well, I should have taken more shots to find out. |
Computer Lab $0.50 per minute. Whee. |
Centerpiece of the Casino Whee, a casino! *sigh* |
Painting/Sculpture This thing did fascinate me, but not tens-of-thousands-of-dollars worth. |
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Fruit Carving This is the kind of stuff I really wanted to see on the ship - skilled workers making stuff. |
Fruit Flower Arrangement I should have tried to eat one. I'll bet that would have gone over well. |
Making a Dog Or is a sheep? My money's on 'dog'. |
Carved Dog Yep, it's a dog. |
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Parallel Carving Three slicers, several creations. |
Carved Fish I may have missed most of the veggie-carving event, but I did get to take pictures of the end result. |
Pictures of Carved Fish Of course, I wasn't the only one taking pictures. |
Carved Duck Let's see, that's a pineapple, lemon, radish, blueberry, carrot, melon of some sort, and probably a red pepper? (I like the small image in the other camera's "viewfinder".) |
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Carved Sheep Or they claimed it was a cauliflower sheep, anyway; I thought it looked more like a poodle. |
Carved Monkey Monkeys make everything better. (Especially pirate movies.) |
Carved Peacock This was, if nothing else, an interesting variety of foods. Squash with nothing but fruit... |
Atrium Three levels of the ship, accessible from the central atrium. It was actually kindof pretty. |
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Reflective Roof It looked more real without the flash, if not really as good. |
Boutiques You can see where they wanted us to spend money from here. Too bad Beth and I didn't want to. |
Bottom Floor Well, fifth deck, anyway. Mostly there were pictures taken there, and disembarkations. |
Ship Towers I like how they try to hide the functionality of the ship. Me, I'd rather see it. |
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Logo Area And smokestacks, of course. |
Formal Beth Getting ready for formal dinner night. I like Beth in a dress. |
Beth Close-Up Mine. |
Dress-Up Tim Hers. |
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Tim and Beth Stop trying to hold it yourself! Aargh! |
Stair Decorations Palm trees, I guess? Whatever. |
Beth on Deck Looking out over the empty water. |
Beth on Deck, II By most counts, I should delete one of these, but dammit, shes my wife and these are my pictures and I don't wanna. |
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Tim on Deck A bit too shadowy. Maybe I should try touching this up. |
Tim on Deck, II Of course, if I try I'll probably end up with something too bright, like this. |
Waiting in Line It's not worth waiting in line for dinner, but we did it sometimes anyway. |
Smiley Beth *smile* |
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Computer Beth Okay, back to work with her! And by work, I mean web comics and LJ. |
Above Decks I liked wandering outside occasionally, but it was warmer inside... |
Landing Sea Plane They're neat to watch. |
Bench It said "Sun Princess" on it, and I wasn't sure that I had anything else that said that yet. Oh well. |
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Life Rafts Or at least what could be used for them. |
Excited Tim! Hooray, it's pizza! |
Fiesta Deck 4 We weren't on this deck much, so I wanted pictures while I could. |
Dressed-Up Tim I can look good in a suit. |
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Gaah, I hate that hair! But not even the suit can save my hair. |
Ice Block I did get to see the ice carving event. |
Ice Carving The guy that was doing it was pretty good at it. |
Ice Carving, II I say this because I have no idea how good he was at it, but he was better than me by a whole lot. |
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Ice Carving, III You can tell, because it was about twenty seconds from the last shot, and the ice was actually beginning to look like something. |
Ice Carving, IV A minute or so after that, and you cal really see it forming into something. |
Ice Carving, V Apparently this isn't a common skill nowadays. I wonder why? |
Ice Carving Tools There weren't that many, which amused me too. |
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Ice Carving, VI I like the amount of mess that it makes. |
Ice Carving, VII :Almost done. It took about ten minutes from start to finish. |
Ice Carving, VIII Putting on a few finishing touches. |
Ice Fish Yep, it's a tropical fish! On an Alaska cruise. Hmm. |
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Ice Fish, Back I wish the light had been better for these photos. |
Me, Reading I read the first 8 Dresden Files books on the trip. This was good for me. Beth read more than I did. We travel differently than most people... |
''Just Married'' Balloons Since I signed up for this trip as our honeymoon, they made it special... by giving us balloons! |
After the Balloons You can tell how special this made Beth feel. |
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