Here we are almost half way through 2014 and it's high time to get away on a holiday (again). This year starts off with a trip to Alaska & the Canadian Rockies.
18 May - fly to Vanouver (we arrive the same day!) and have a couple of days to get acclimitised.
21 May - join Island Princess for a 7 night Alaskan cruise up to Anchorage. We have 3 days to explore the far north.
31 May - fly to Calgary and once again have 3 days exploring
3 June - Rocky Mountaineer trip which includes bus and train back to Vancouver
10 June - 3 days to further explore Vancouver (& includes a day trip to Victoria, (Vancouver Island)
13 June - fly home - arriving on 15 June
Well the bags are packed (& under weight thankfully) and it is just a matter of waiting for Sunday. We are fortunate that friends we met on the Ocean Princess last year are meeting us at Vancouver airport and will take us to our hotel and show us around. They had insisted that we stay with them, but we already had non-refundable hotel reservations, so stuck with that. It will be great to catch up with them again, Rohays was a bridge player with Vivian and we'd meet up for the Princess Afternoon Tea each sea-day. Don, her husband, is not a bridge player and enjoyed a relaxing afternoon (as did I - oh, did I just say that?). Anyway, no bridge on this cruise - it's pretty port and scenic intensive, and also pretty short.
Next blog entry will be when we get to Vancouver - not many sleeps left!
