Whittier

OK...so we were given lots of papers, luggage tags, tickets...and a time of 6:15 to get off the ship and get on the train.  What????   This is supposed to be a relaxing vacation.  But we did it....

Got all luggage/clothes/backpacks ready before we went to bed..clothes laid out for morning.  Set both phones for  5 a.m.  And went to bed....probably around 10:00 or 10:30.  Sound asleep and  loud music booms in the room at 12:30 a.m.  We both were scrambling around trying to find how to shut it OFF.  After banging on the phones, we then went to all switches in the room, then to the TV.  I went to telephone and hit every button on it and NOBODY answered.  Ronnie threw on clothes and went down the hall to find somebody....nobody around.  Three times it happened and then quit.  Went back to sleep.(found out later that it happened in ALL rooms--not happy cruisers)  At 5 a.m. ????? Ronnie's phone alarm went off.  I reached for mine to shut it off and it was 4 a.m.!!  For some reason, his phone didn't change time zones.  Went back to sleep ---well, sorta--- and my phone went off at 5.  Dressed, had breakfast and went to the lounge by 6:10....Off the ship promptly at 6:15 in the dark and loaded on the train....something like the old western cattle train cars.  The cars were very nice...great views from the all glass roofs.  But still...we felt like we were herded.

Leaving the ship for the train

A longgggg  day of riding on the train.  The novelty wore off after a bit.  You couldn't see anything but trees.



 Did catch a glimpse of Sarah Palin's house in Wasilla, but that was about it.

Sarah Palin's fence