Day 11 & 12 Last days of Pacific Crossing

Not much to show for our last two days before we make landfall, tomorrow. We saw land to the north this morning. 

Sunrise & land

We went to a wine pairing lunch. Four courses & 7 wines. Then 5.5 laps around the deck. We now have wind & white caps in the ocean. However, the ship is so stable it is hardly noticeable. We need some wind and waves to sleep better!

Then nap. 

It will be good to for us to have a change of pace. We haven’t any excursions booked for Kodiak. Small town, so we will be walking about. That is, if Kodiak really is Kodiak and not like Sapporo/not Sapporo.

Sunrise has been consistent at around 6am. Sunset tonight should be around 10:30. 

The change of sunset has kept most of us at the dinner table, as we have been trained to leave after dark. Last night, we all arrived at the same time, but didn’t start leaving until 10pm. Oops. Hopefully, we do better tonight.

Not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but...our senior waiter (Max) and sommelier pretty much decide what we are eating & drinking. It’s pretty funny. It started, albeit gradually, right from the start. We were thinking of ordering one thing & Max steered us towards something else. Gina wanted to order red wine, she was steered towards something else. We wanted to special order rack of lamb, Max suggested we do that another time as we should be having “fill in the blank” instead. 

To save time and make our decision making easier, Max gives me the dinner menu at breakfast (Gina is given the dessert menu). We ask Max if there is something we should be having from the menu or should we order “off piste”. We are hoping we will be “allowed” to have Beef Wellington sometime soon.