Cruising to Alaska (day 1)

This would be our first cruise on a huge ship (4002 passengers plus 1700 crew members), so there was some palpable excitement when we saw it as the bus took us from the Seattle airport to the port of that city where the ship was berthing. 

Built in Germany and started in 2018, the ship took 4 years to be completed at a cost of of $1 billion (today’s similar boats will run over $2 billion!) 

There might be a dozen ships larger than that one in the world. As we got onboard, we spend the rest of the afternoon exploring a few of the many areas areas of the behemoth, got a tiny bit familiarize with its systems and other idiosyncrasies that consumed both my wife and I. 

We were pooped when we fell asleep!