Well, I ask you, "what next?" First it was his lip, now it's his fingertips. Mac woke this morning with all the pads on the fingers on both hands swollen and inflamed. It seems his fingers suffered hundreds of small lacerations in the crab feast. While I was twisting and turning the leg joints, sucking and slurping the crab meat from the body and monopolising the single claw cracker like a professional, in desperation to keep up, Mac was crumbling the legs, s...

So that there is no unfounded lingering " eager anticipation" here, our lucky numbers did not come up in the onboard Paradise Lotto so Mac's investment of $8 paid no dividends.But, we still had the winning feeling because today was Ketchikan shore day. There were so many adventures and activities to choose from: kayaking, hiking, rope challenges, zip lining, snorkelling, canoeing or sport fishing. All the activities are rated for physicality from Level 2 thro...

This was a day at sea and somehow we didn't quite expect that there would be waves with white water breaking while sailing along the Inside Passage. But there you go, on our first day of dashing up the coast we could not see land or islands, just endless whitecaps. The sea bands worked perfectly (thanks @Mindy) and Mac has been perfect to date although we are a little wobbly up and down the hallways as the Norwegian Sun rocks and rolls.This was a true day of...

It's cruise day and there was a lot of packing and repacking of the repacking this morning. The luggage allowance specified we could have two bags each but no single bag was to be over 24 kgs. Thank goodness for the backpack because after the rearrangement, I was able to skinny zip my suitcase (no expander needed) and the back pack was fully expanded.The taxi was hailed at 11.00 and the drop off at the pier was 11.15. Again, the process was so easy. There was...

A great sleep-in saw us emerge from the Vancouver Fairmont at 11.30 am under clear blue skies and an amazingly warm spring day, just in time to make our way to Gastown via The Hudson Bay store for watch repairs and a visit to the men's department for some shirt top-ups for Mac.Success on the shirts but no luck in the watch department. After a visit to Dollarama I am now the proud owner of a waterproof LED digital plastic black watch....for the princely sum of...