We sailed on the Noordam, on the Holland-America line, with over 1900 other people (not counting crew, who were ubiquitous, numerous and fabulous). It took several days to get a sense of where everything was – multiple eating facilities (food available virtually 24/7); small meeting rooms (where we played Family Feud and other games – more on that in another post); two swimming pools and hot tubs, larger auditorium-like venues (for music, educational talks, comedy nights, etc.), and so on. Plus (re)learning “port” and “starboard.”
Here are a couple of ship shots:
* A bunch of us lounging on the promenade deck (Deck 3, on which you could walk all the way around the ship; 3 laps = 1 mile)
* The pool on the rear Lido deck (Deck 9) (although we mostly hung out at the front Lido deck pool – no smoking allowed). This was taken as we pulled out of Ketchikan, which was our first port after leaving Vancouver. We spent Tuesday (8/6) there — see post still to come.
* All of us on the Monday night “Gala night” dinner (This is a photo of the photo the ship’s photographer took.)
Fendels in Alaska 