Glacier Bay, July 23, 2014

Another beautiful morning.

We're on our way into Glacier Bay.

The first photos of the morning were 

taken just after 5AM.

The sunrise was at 4:38 that morning,

but I slept in... ha.

The weather forecast:

Partly cloudy with showers.

The hand rails were wet from the rain

we got  during the night.

The color of the water was beautiful,

even if the photo turned out a bit blurry.

They gave us a map and a guide

for the day to help us follow along 

on where we were at and what we were 

looking at.

  

Just two cruise ships are allowed inside

Glacier Bay on each day.

We took turns at the glaciers and switched

places with each other at the two glaciers

that we stopped at.

We were lucky

 that we weren't getting rain. 

This photo is from the starboard side

of the ship.  

I took a walk along the promenade 

deck on my way to the Piazza 

for coffee to take back to our room.

Here's the morning offerings in

the bakery section of the International Cafe.

Today's special:

Hot Chocolate which you could also order

without the alcohol. 

 It was available the rest of the day, 

either at the IC or from carts that they

would roll around the open decks and 

along the promenade deck.

This would have been the

perfect cold  day for hot chocolate, 

but we didn't try it.  Shoot.

Maybe next time.....if we get to 

go again.  Would love to go again

with a land trip to Denali included.

The other case was just as tempting,

and I resisted as I waited in line for our coffees.

On Glacier Bay day, they do not use

disposable cups, straws, napkins, or

anything that could accidentally be blown

overboard.  Our coffee came in mugs

that I had to carefully carry back up to our room.

Room service doesn't start serving until 

6:00 and some mornings that seems too

long to wait. We aren't allowed to have 

coffee makers or water heaters in our cabins. 

The coffee from the IC is fresh brewed.

The coffee served in the buffet, and with

room service is made from a coffee syrup

concentrate.  So you might understand

why the walk to the IC first thing in the 

morning is desirable.

Here's why I could resist those pastries

down in the IC.

We had ordered breakfast via room service

the night before.

Under the dome, there's a couple of egg/muffin

sandwiches.  Rick wanted cereal as well.

The orange juice is only available 'free' at 

breakfast.  It's not available the rest of the day

unless you pay extra.  

What's nice, is that you can store

the juice in your room refrigerator 

and save it for later in the day.  

After breakfast we took 

a walk back to the piazza.

I think we were 

trying to catch up with our friends.

 We could usually find them there

in the piazza or up on the deck by the pools.

Looking down into the piazza.

We didn't find them, 

but it was time to get outside

to see the glaciers.

We passed Lamplugh glacier

on our way to Margerie Glacier.

We'd come back to Lamplugh later.

The cloud deck hung low over over the

mountains and the bay. 

The water color was spectacular.

Everything was spectacular.

Especially when we got to Margerie.

Oh my goodness, 

I just spent an hour looking at those

photos... lost in the blue color

and can't believe that we were actually there.

Sorry to be gushing,

but it was beautiful.