Food! Glorious Food!

This is my long-overdue post-full-of-food-pictures from our Alaskan Cruise in July. So, what other title could I come up with other than what I did? I saw the musical Oliver when I was about 10 and fell in love with it. The title made me go hunt for this video:





My hubby's cousin wanted to know all about the food on the cruise, so I attempted to photograph almost everything we ate. I won't post all of the photos, but believe me, there are enough ahead to make me hungry all over again.

This was undoubtedly the best steak I have ever eaten. Tucked behind it there is a stack of au gratin potatoes. Mmmm.

Chocolate dessert. Yes, it was as good as it looks.

Salmon and asparagus my hubby had, I lost count of how many times he ate salmon.

This was a shrimp and crab salad sandwich. And really different, but oh so yummy chips.

These? Oh, these were my weakness. Soft pretzel bread sticks. Heaven.

Our breakfast feast one morning. I loved everything that was in that bread basket. I was so hungry I ate half my omelet before I remembered to take a picture.

One evening we decided to go find a snack. I started out with good intentions. Some cucumber slices, bleu cheese crumbles, caraway cheese slices. Then I saw The Breadsticks. Oh there was some Ham. And that Macaroni and Cheese looked good. And who could walk by a Chocolate Chip Cookie?

We signed up for this special meal the day we were cruising in Glacier Bay National Park. The Salmon was amazing.

And the special meal was complete with, what else? Baked Alaska!

A Shrimp Spring Roll appetizer. So pretty!

Milk Chocolate Mousse. Oh wow. Had this more than once.

Chicken and Mashed Potatoes. That gravy was amazing.

Cheesecake. 'Nough said.

Some fish the hubby had.

Warning for the photos ahead. One evening on the cruise they offered a ..... ready for this?????  CHOCOLATE BUFFET!!! Oh my. It started at 10pm. Enjoy the chocolate loveliness.

Look! Chocolate as far as the eye could see!

I think that's a great place to end this post. Somehow I wish there was a way to eat yourself silly on a cruise and then make the food last so you wouldn't have to eat for the next three weeks to balance things out.

I wrote this before breakfast. Now I am starving.

Alaska -- Part 5

Our last port-of-call in Alaska was not near as good as the other two. I guess we just got a bad tour guide. And it was just too touristy. (is that a word?)

This garbage truck was the best/funniest thing I saw.

A cool looking fishing boat:

Our last port-of-call on the cruise was to Victoria, British Columbia. I had no idea what to expect. We were pleasantly surprised. It is a beautiful city. The climate sounds almost ideal... 44-75 degrees! It rains 25" a year and snows once every ten years. Soooo nice!

We reached port at 6pm. Along with our ship was, I think, two other ships. Check out all the buses and taxis waiting for the cruisers:

We had a delightful city tour and learned a lot about the city.

We ended the tour with a visit to a place called Butchart Gardens. It was started 100 years ago by the wife of a man who quarried limestone. She wanted to make the spent quarry beautiful. It has been open to the public for 100 years except for a few years during World War II. (What part of the world was not affect by WWII?)

I had a hard time picking just a few pictures of the flowers. It was amazing all over. I hope you can catch that form my photos.

I could not decide what was my favorite rose. There were so many!

These yellow flowers were so unique!

The evening ended with an outstanding fireworks show. Of course I couldn't get very decent pictures, but here are a couple I posted just to help me remember the evening.

It was a wonderful evening in Victoria.

Our next stop was the end of the cruise. We then spent a few days in Seattle. I'll post some pictures later.

Alaska -- Part 4

Day 5 of the cruise was spent in Glacier Bay National Park. Three park rangers got on the cruise ship and were narrating over the PA things we should look for. It was very interesting.

I took a thousand (give or take a hundred) pictures of the glaciers we saw. But I won't post them all here. You're welcome. :)

This glacier was 25 stories tall. Think of being on the 25th floor of a building. That's a lot of glacier!

A couple close up shots:

In another park of the bay was this glacier. I took it through the window so I could remember the awesome view from our room. This one shows the glacier coming down through the mountains to the ocean. To get some perspective, the rangers told us it was 5 miles away!

A telephoto shot:

And a farther out shot:

A close up of yet another glacier. I just love the blue in this one. So pretty!

Just a couple, well maybe more than two, more posts about our Alaska trip. I still have random photos from the ship and a few other places. a gorgeous garden in British Columbia, the food (!) and then the four days we spent in Seattle. Oh well. At least it makes for some good memories for us and a great way to document this on my blog.

Alaska -- Part 3

Just a few more scenery pictures....(Well may be more than a few. I want to try to document this trip more for my memories. Sorry to my readers if it get's tedious.)

A beautiful Alaskan sunset:

Our next port-of-call was Skagway. Defininatly a cruise ship town. There were FOUR cruise ships here with another docked several miles away and brought passengers by ferry to Skagway. We got off the ship a few hours before our excursion was scheduled to begin to do a little shopping. Hubby was chilly, so he went back to get a warmer jacket. I entertained myself by taking a few pictures of the ship.

Here's a shot of all the craziness in town:

Guess what? I didn't buy a thing! Cheesy tourist shops and a bazillion jewelry stores are just not my thing, I guess. There was a quilt(!) shop! I didn't even buy anything there. There was a kit I was interested in until I saw the price was close to $200. **sigh** I took a picture in the store of a quilt I liked.

And look who's book I found in another store! (I'm talking about the Beth Moore book.)

Our excursion headed up into the Yukon Territory of Canada. That is some gorgeous country. The bus followed  through a valley that the gold miners traveled through to get to the gold. It was called the Klondike Highway.

A one sided suspension bridge that we drove over. Twice.

Can you see the markers extending above the highway? Those are for the snow plow drivers... so they know where the road is....and isn't. They are soo tall. I can't imagine the amount of snow they get up there!

There's that photographer guy again! (He liked his new camera!)

Me and my honey on our 26th Anniversary. Aren't we cute? (Especially the hair?)

We went about 10-15 miles into Canada. Yes, we had our passports.

Our destination was this stupid suspension bridge. It was stupid because it was scary, and because it really didn't go anywhere and was just there for tourists.

There's that photographer guy again....

The bus driver made one last stop for a round of cheesy tourist photo-ops. Who could resist?

The trip was ended with a very yummy salmon grill. We had a great conversation with the bus driver who is a college student in Utah. He and several friends drove to Alaska to drive tour buses, but mostly to hike in the beautiful coastal mountains of SE Alaska.


It was a good anniversary day.