All Aboard!

I don't have photos of the Muster drill.

They weren't allowed as the crew

wants your full attention at the drill.

 At 3:30 we were to be at Muster Station D

down in the Vista Lounge for a

general emergency drill.

"This exercise is a requirement of the law.

At the start of the exercise, alarms will sound 

and broadcasts will be made, calling you

to your Muster Stations as indicated 

on the notice on the back of your stateroom door.  

Please carry your life jacket with you.

Do not wear it, and for safety's sake,

do not allow the ties to trail on the deck. 

The correct method of wearing a life jacket

will be demonstrated at the end of muster.

Please have your cruise card

 ready for scanning by the ship's personnel

 and ensure all cell phones are switched off 

before entering the Muster Stations."

After muster, we returned our life vests to

our stateroom and resumed watching

the workers on the pier getting the ship

ready to depart.

Looking aft from the port side of the ship.

Seattle is on the starboard side.

The Westerdam

She was just about ready to pull out ahead

of us.  We played leap frog with the Westerdam

all the way up to Alaska and back.

 Looking forward towards the bridge.

Looks like the gangway was already 

pulled away from the ship at this point.

I was intrigued with the way everything

was loaded onto the ship.

The luggage bins were loaded into the 

yellow crates.

 Then the crane lifts the crate up 

and swings it towards a doorway 

somewhere down around deck 4 I believe.

We had already received our luggage.

The Westerdam on her way.

                             

Looking straight down from our balcony.

 Then towards the aft.

Once again towards the bridge.

 

The dock workers ready to let the lines go.

I really enjoyed watching the whole process, 

and seeing how everything was done. 

There was another team working on the lines
the front of the ship at the same time.

This was nothing new to Rick
because of his sea life during our Navy years.

 

But, it was all new to me.  

And....

I loved it!