Time flies by without noticing it and today would be the last day of the cruise. We had a whale of time in the ship and we felt sad that we had to move on (even though we still had the cruise tour to follow). I’ve checked the schedule of today and knew that the ship will arrive College Fjord in the late afternoon. We had room service for breakfast (didn’t miss it this time) and then the rest of the morning was about running errand: do the laundry, pack the luggage, check out at the passengers service desk, get the disembarkation document for the train tomorrow, etc.
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| Room Service Breakfast- Croque Monsieur |
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| Ham-Cheese & Egg Breakfast Sandwich |
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| Watermelon @ Room Service Breakfast |
The busy morning has kept me from taking any of those scholarship ® at the sea classes or activities like culinary demonstration, art history @ the sea, Alaska naturalist lecture: the Awe-inspiring world of Alaskan Flora, magic class, greeting card creating class, etc. We didn’t even have time to have lunch as we were planning to finish most of the packing by 3pm before the ship got close to the College Fjord. We had afternoon tea instead of lunch. White gloves afternoon tea was served almost everyday in Sapphire and the quality of the food were decent- some were better than the afternoon tea that I had in LA!
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| Afternoon tea display at entrance |
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| Very velvety strawberry shortcake and bittersweet chocolate roll |
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| Afternoon tea @ Pacific Moon Dining Room @3:30pm |
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| Pianist at afternoon tea |
Sandra the naturalist was announcing around 4:30pm that the ship would approach the final scenic spot soon. We grabbed our binocular and be prepared for the view. Everyone I know who has been in College Fjord raved about this scenic cruise. College Fjord is located at the northern section of the Prince William Sound and it contains 5 tidewater glaciers, 5 large valley glaciers and a lot of small glaciers. A lot of the glaciers were named after those Ivy League colleges. I could imagine if it were a bright and sunny sky, the view would be spectacular. Unfortunately, we had a very cloudy sky with very thick low cloud. It was drizzling when we went out to the open deck area and the wind was bone-chilling cold.
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| College Fjord |
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We stayed in the bow for more than an hour to capture the view. Maybe because of the freezing temperature and the contrast from the warm-and-sunny-Glacier-Bay, I did not have the excitement when I saw the College Fjord and not intended to stay any longer on the deck. We headed back to our room and took a hot shower to defrost. We had our luggages placed outside of the room before dinner so that stewart would pick them up by 8pm. We had our last dinner with our neighbor Karry and Marilyn, saw the last magic tricks by Apollo and call off our last day of the cruise.
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| Poached Seafood and Avocado with Lime-Cilantro Vinaigrette |
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| Chilled Curried Pumpkin Cream Soup |
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| Philadelphia Pepper Pot Soup with Chilli Dust |
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| Mariner Style Black Mussels in White Wine Sauce |
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| Grilled New York Cut Strip Steak with Green Peppercorn Sauce |
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| Baked Alaska!!! Must Have!! |
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| Rum Raisin Icecream |
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| Deep Dish Apple Pie with Vanilla Icecream |
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| Dept.of Health will come after disembarkation~ |
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| Dept. Health will check every since utensil!! |
第七天 學院峽灣
快樂不知時日過, 瞬眼間已來到遊輪假期的最後一天. 雖然我們尚有陸上遊輪觀光團, 但還是覺得有點依依不捨的傷感感覺. 查看過今天的行程表, 知道遊船會在下午傍晚的時候抵達學院峽灣. 於是,我們在客房內吃過早餐後（今天終於吃到了!!）便開始了一連串的收拾任務如洗衣服，執拾行李，在遊客服務部退房，拿取離船的文件及明天登火車的證件等等．
繁忙的早上令我們無法參與任何的興趣班或活動，例如烹飪示範，藝術史班，阿拉斯加自然學班：阿拉斯加凜然的植物群，魔術班，節日卡手工藝班，等等．我們忙得不可開交，連吃中午飯的時間也沒有──因為我們想在下午3時船靠近學院峽灣前把行李都收拾好．事情安排妥當後，我們便到餐廳去用英式下午茶．藍寶石公主遊輪差不多每天都有供應英式下午茶，而且食物質素不錯──有些更超越了加州的一些下午茶餐廳．
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Sandra自然學家於下午4時30分廣播，說遊輪快將到達行程的最後一個景區．我們趕快去拿望遠鏡，準備欣賞景色．我們認識一些曾來到學院峽灣的朋友，他們對這峽灣有著高度的評價．學院峽灣是位於威廉王子海灣的北部，它包括了5個潮水冰川，5個山谷冰川及許多小型的冰川．許多的冰川是以名校的名字取名而成．我能想像在陽光普照的日子裡，學院峽灣的景色必定是如詩如畫般美．奈何今天的雲層又厚又低．我們在甲板的時候，外面還下著毛毛細雨，寒風刺骨．根本無法盡情地欣賞景色．
我們在船頭逗留了大概一個多小時． 可能是由於嚴寒的天氣，以及昨天溫和天氣，迷人景色的強烈對比下，我們對學院峽灣沒有起太大的興奮作用，也沒有打算再多留長一點時間．最後，我們回去洗熱水澡“解凍”；把行李於8時前放在門外，方便船員收拾；與Karry 及Marilyn吃最後的船上晚餐及看Apollo最後一次的魔術表現──就這樣，我們便結束了這遊輪旅程．
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