Finally Cruising to Alaska!

What an exciting day! We boarded the Holland American line cruise ship MS Zuiderdam at 2PM prior to our 5PM sailing. The weather in Vancouver has been in the mid twenties C during our stay and today was just as good. It took us over an hour to get through customs and immigration to get on to the ship and were pleasantly surprised to find out that we had been upgraded to a verandah stateroom instead of the ocean view room that we had booked.

We sailed out under the harbour bridge and headed north between Vancouver Island and the mainland. The views were stunning and we were pointing our camera's in all directions to take advantage of it.

As we had did not have time to unpack before the ship sailed we turned our attention to getting this done before dinner. Our cabin is perfect with good views from the large windows leading out to the balcony. We can see that we will be spending quite a bit of time taking photo's from it.

We awoke this morning to see a huge group of dolphins swimming alongside the ship and a whale breaching in the distance... what a way to start the day.

The food and service is fabulous and I think that we will have to address a serious diet when we get back home.

Tonight is a formal night which we are looking forward to and tomorrow we will be arriving in our first port of call which is Juneau so stay posted.

Sailing into the sunset...

Kerry has found the perfect bar!

She has also found some friends frolicking in the distance.

Taken from our balcony.

Sunset on the first night...

Going under the harbour bridge leaving Vancouver.

My first Margarita for the cruise...

Kerry's first cocktail of the day...

Following another cruise ship out of Vancouver harbour.