Norwegian Bliss Alaska Cruise | 7 Day Alaska Inside Passage Cruise Tour & Experience

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welcome back to another adventure with Travels Through Nature we are about to take an unforgettable 7-day journey
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through one of the most breathtaking places on Earth Alaska this is a trip that's been on my bucket list for years
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over the next 7 days we'll be cruising through the Inside Passage and checking out some of the amazing coastal towns
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whether you're here for travel inspiration cruise tips or just want to sit back and enjoy the view you're in
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the right place let's kick off this incredible adventure day one of our Alaska cruise starts
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[Music] now all right here we are about to board
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the Norwegian Bliss a different experience than what we've had in LA and
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Miami but can't wait woohoo day one begins now
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here we are first day on the cruise
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ship welcome to our room on the Norwegian Bliss so we are on a 7-day cruise
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sailing from Seattle to Alaska we will be visiting Juno
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Skagway Ketchacan Glacier Bay National Park and Victoria British Columbia and
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this will be our home for the next seven nights so we chose a balcony room a
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lovely balcony so that we can enjoy all of the views so here's a little tour of
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our balcony cabin just a pretty standard cruise ship bathroom but it is nice
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full closet and you will see we have really jam-packed a lot of stuff in here
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all of our warm jackets and coats we have a couch and then over here we have
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a getting ready area with a vanity kingsize bed over here and then we also
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have the balcony pretty windy outside right now but it is beautiful
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we're so excited to be here and excited to be trying out Norwegian Cruise Line thank you nice
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beautiful cheers cheers it's bowling time
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how is that warm up okay Debbie you're better than this
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first [Music] one there wow i know i know it's okay
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watch this one though
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one single pin left [Music]
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well cheers it's not a picture it's a video oh yeah
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[Music]
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check out this dinner menu out of the uh This is my favorite part of cruising i
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think I want this chicken picata honey creme brulee
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oh or a guava cake and then you got to see this view quite
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magical [Music]
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chicken picata dylan's got the New York strip
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[Music]
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steak good morning it is day two it is our day at sea 9 in the morning and I
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want to spend my day in the hot tub so that's what we're going to go get up and do first thing let's go let's go
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are going to refill our water bottle okay pro tip bring your own water bottle
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from home and that way you can just come up and refill it whenever you want they do have water bottles for sale on the
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ship but nobody wants to pay for their water and we have the unlimited alcohol
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package and on Norwegian that doesn't include water bottles so I'm glad I have my own
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we got to have a little warm up before we go in the hot tub we need to have a little warm up
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and whiskey done cheers woo okay I'm ready
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it is freezing up here probably like 40° and we're hitting morning jacuzzi
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woo go go go go go go go oh man
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[Music] i'm
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ready oh yes that's nice that's nice
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i think you would never be able to enjoy a hot tub by yourself at any moment in time on any of the big Carnival ships
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thank you so much thank you you are the best
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what do we got here love espresso martini cuz I haven't had my morning coffee yet
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[Music] [Applause]
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for my $75 bingo purchase I did win instant
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bingo prize of
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$1 wow big winner Debbie 75 into $1
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woohoo [Music] no
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[Music] wow what okay tonight we are having a Boston
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royal bluefish dylan is having a parmesan crusted pork chop with broccoli
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breaded flounder and Debbie is enjoying the Caesar salad also enjoying a lemon drop
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cheers [Music]
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it's all coming back to me
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now let this guy all night crying by the
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machine dreaming on my
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sh 9 oo heavy okay nice so now it's time to up
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all right we are first day in Alaska heading to Juno and it is a rainy
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morning the rain is coming down there's snow no it's like a light
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light sleep okay we got to go up i got to get out of the rain
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[Music]
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[Music] there it goes is it a whale
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is it a whale or like a small dolphin
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so a whale we are heading into our first port Juno Alaska
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oh my god look at that who's that man hello Kale hi Kale
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our first stop in our first port call Juno Alaska on our 7-day cruise
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[Music]
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we've just got off the cruise ship and the unfortunate news is that our
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helicopter tour was cancelled due to the inclement weather i'm hoping we can
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maybe catch a tram to the Menden Hall Glacier it is raining but I've got my
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rain gear and I always say that uh I'm a little
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muffin when I'm this puppy so hopefully we can still go see
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Glacier today i'm determined to make it happen [Music]
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okay so we ended up taking a lift and we found a very wonderful lift driver that
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took us all the way from the cruiseport if you look behind us there is the
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glacier and Debbie and Cal made it yes thanks to the ride yeah woohoo
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well there she is i visited here 15 years ago with my family when I was
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about 10 and here we are again this is the Mendenhal
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Glacier in 2025 and there is a waterfall somewhere
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over there i think we need to maybe find if we can do the hike
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[Music]
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today where are we heading the waterfall to the waterfall nugget Falls waterfall
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at Menon Hall [Music] [Applause]
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[Music]
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[Music] Glacier we didn't get to do our
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helicopter tour today just due to the weather but when we were planning this whole thing Dylan was saying "Wow I'd
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really love to do that waterfall hike at the Mendenhal Glacier." And I said "Well sucks to suck cuz I really want to go on
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this glacier helicopter." But that didn't end up working out so now we are
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on the hike to the waterfall best part is we paid $30 for
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an Uber to get here for the four of us
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[Music] we are here
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and where's here i don't [Music]
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know wow yay
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[Music]
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[Music]
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we made it bending
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Log come along
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woo is it cold that's some fresh snow melt if you ask me really
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cold water there you go
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thank you
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all right ready [Music]
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when you're in Alaska you got to do it we're going to the glacier you ready baby yeah
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[Music]
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[Music] heat heat
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[Music]
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woo heat
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[Music]
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you only live once and I don't know how many other opportunities I'll
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have to walk barefoot through a glacier
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[Music] beautiful we got the best view
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[Music] that was awesome i'm a little wet girl
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but I got my shoes back on my knits and my hat are totally soaked that's okay
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worth the experience [Music]
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let me see what you got i got a treat some boom voyage alaskan grown cannabis
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oo nice that Alaskan sun [Music]
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grown so this is the tapanyaki late night dinner
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watch my
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Oh nice
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[Music] rolling on the river 1 2 3
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4 here you go get ready
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oh bad eggs bad eggs congratulations
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boys oh my god another one expensive
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mistake it's not my It's not my lucky day
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[Music]
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yeah [Music] woo it's a windy day
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it is most windy day in Skagway it is sure windy at least there's no
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rain though that's right [Music]
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all right here's the Norwegian Bliss we're right next to
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Holl in America holl in America
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[Music] here it is there's the train next stop
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welcome to Skagway Alaska we are going today on the White Pass Railway but we
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have a little bit of time to kill we're going to go do some exploring in town they say it's about a 10 minute walk up
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to the town so that's what we're gonna do it's beautiful
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[Music]
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of the original gold mining equipment just a pan an old pickaxe and some gold
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nuggets that everybody wished they could find all right we're going to spin for our
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hopefully our fortune your fate learn your fate a fortune in the Yukon a gold
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miners [Music] oh you became truly wealthy
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oh you turned back a Dylan turned back he turned back it was too cold too windy
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not enough gold that's our parents' faint
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what is it i'm trekking just as hard as the miners did you ready Cal yeah
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[Music] get something good get something good oh no there we go they turned back as well
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same as us we must have been together or something we came as a family we left the family we We forgot our passports oh
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no two little men in a boat went for a ride
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voters of an experience sounds about right graphics are split
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and dangerous i was hoping to come in for a beer
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can I get a beer sir sir smoke once filled the air in this
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bar room customers could buy a stogy cigar for 5 cents a pop the allmale
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crowd users sloshed the tobacco leaves around in their mouths then expelled a
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stream of brown saliva the spatoon's wide mouth made it an
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easyish target
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to the motherland alaskan cannabis let's get
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it we're going on the White Pass Railroad on the Yukon Route and we are
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[Music] ready our train crews work day and night
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to maintain over 80 of our
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passengers where we at girl
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You're on the
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[Music]
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train $14
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[Music]
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skagway Brewing Co and I ordered a barley wine
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[Music]
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favorite part is just everywhere you look it's views yeah definitely this is
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a beautiful little town got the bay you got mountains all around you rippers
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running through it [Music]
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happy anniversary to you
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two years past number two our
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wedding this is not really our marriage anniversary but it's your wedding happy
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wedding anniversary to my sweet loving husband thank you thank you thank you
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good morning from Glacier Bay National Park and look we can see an
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iceberg [Music] wow this is truly
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incredible oh my gosh [Music]
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it is so beautiful and magical
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so right now we're going through Glacier Bay National Park and we are approaching
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the John's Hopkins Glacier and I think they said this is the John's Hopkins
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Passage this is just so magical i think even more magical than
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what I could imagine
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so far so nice very nice
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[Music] yep here comes the rain i can feel it
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heading into the storm
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[Music]
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[Music]
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it's a little sea otter
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for miles in front of the glacier seals hollow on floating ice and females give birth to 25 lb pups ms nurse their pups
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for about a month almost doubling the weight of their offspring during this time
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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when you order a wedge salad this is what you hope for and what do you have
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my love the lobster do you want to try it and let me know what you think
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and don't fake your answer just cuz you're on video all right
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cheers my love cheers my love
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to a wonderful vacation okay we are at the steakhouse and I have
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the ribeye with sauteed mushrooms truffle mash cassie got the filet
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minan i got the triple layer chocolate cake but this is
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like a 10 layer chocolate cake and I got the cheesecake i have to give the quality
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control okay the friends we met earlier said that this cheesecake was to die for so
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let's see if I die give me a little bit of that [Music]
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films opinion that's important [Music]
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i love cheese that's really good really really good little taste test
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ready
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[Music]
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[Music]
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self requested song slow down you crazy
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[Music]
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child
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lights for sure to find
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[Music]
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Welcome to Ketakan Creek
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Street we're walking down Creek Street
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the oldest fossilized salmon over 50 million years
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old water a lot of water coming through
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there's the fish ladder for the salmon that need to go upstream pretty crazy
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looking totem pole heritage site [Music]
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wow yeah it's nice
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walking wow [Music]
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okay so these are the five main types of totem poles the pole on the back to the
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right there is a bear with a killer whale that's a uh memorial pole it would
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be put up for somebody who was lost at sea or somebody of great importance the
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one in front of that is actually a mortuary pole and what they would do is chiefs and people of very high import
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they would cremate and then place one of the ventless boxes like you see down here and place it in the back of the
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pole so you can see a rectangle cut out in the back of the pole um for that
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particular purpose the one over here at the back left is a pot latch pole when
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you would give a pot latch you could raise one of these poles and you would add a ring for every pot latch that you
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threw hot latches for ceremonies of great import cultural events where
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everything of legal importance took place you're going to get married you're going to bestow a name you're going to
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choose a successor you're going to make a treaty anything and everything of importance took place at these potlatch
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parties so they would invite all the clans from the surrounding villages and they would come in and they would feed
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and house them for the week week and a half that the party's going on and they were witnesses then paid witnesses cuz
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they would each be given gifts to everything that occurred so oral tradition this is your signed contract
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uh for everything that occurred is um the potlash and so this was a very wealthy clan cuz they could have that
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number of full rings and pot lashes the top pole here is a storytelling pole uh
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they use storytelling poles to do myths legends the creation story all that kind
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of stuff would happen sometimes it was a brave ancestors this one is uh strong
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ribs and he uh was the main hunter and provider for his clan went out in no canoe one day
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ran into some foul weather end up trying almost drowning and the killer well people came and saved him now all
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animals can change into humans and all animals have their own clan houses somewhere in their natural environment
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so they took him down to the bottom of the sea where he stayed in their clan house and recovered from his illnesses
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and injuries from getting lost at sea there then he knew that he had to come back to the clan to provide for them
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because he was the main provider so he swam to the surface and killed a sea lion which is what you see coming over
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his head and out he skinned it placed himself within the skin swam back to his village and was able to Wow yeah so
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that's the totem poles that's awesome the totem poles range anywhere from 100 to over 200 years old these are the
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oldest totem poles in the state totem poles are traditionally allowed to decay back into nature so the oldest totem
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poles are under moss somewhere you can't even tell what they are right um but luckily through the Alaskan Native
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Brotherhood and Sisterhood as well as the Forest Service and other government agencies they petitioned two villages to
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get the totem poles from the village and bring them here to preserve for future generations and so they got permission
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from the entire village had to be everybody it could be just one person they got permission and then they were
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moved here specially to be preserved here there was our people living among along the creek we had artists that
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carved along the creek [Music]
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the sports [Music] [Applause]
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bar we got a model of the Bliss looking at it like this it looks
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huge [Music] hey this is our favorite hot tub on the
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whole ship favorite hot tub right there this is the best one get great views the
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other one up here is private but this is the adults only section on the back of the ship where they
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have the huge jacuzzi's mhm maybe tomorrow and then tomorrow we also need
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to go go-karting i've noticed that all over the ship they have different artwork on the walls and on this cruise
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they have a bunch of pictures of like icebergs and glaciers and even on this it's an Alaska picture but the ship also
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does um a Cabo cruise and so I just wonder
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they must change out does Cabo Miami Europe i don't imagine they have
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these all year long and then there's a glacier picture right here
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i doubt they have these for Mexico cruises and other other ones but good
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observation we could ask Clifford good observation thank you [Music]
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[Music]
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uh well we are the Beatles Experience and we're going to play for you some hits of the Beatles so we hope you enjoy
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the show are you ready to enjoy this show with us really 1 2 3 pop
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[Music] my no
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heaven sees a few
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try imagine all that we
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fall never for today
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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i'm waiting for my first thing on Monday [Music]
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this is the social bar where all the comedy clubs happen late night comedy right here look
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here this is so cool in here
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[Music]
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sweet room this is a sweet room [Music]
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they they change the art every day they do on the all the art around the ship
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not just in here but the pieces that are actually displayed are they different every cruise you go to Mexico or is it
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all iceberg no they've been the same since I've been since I've been here so they have like icebergs on the wall even when we're in Mexico yes oh okay
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interesting we were We were thinking they changed it i think um the last time they changed some of the art was in
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January the ship was in France for dry do that's when I signed on so they changed a whole bunch of things on the
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ship i think they swapped out a couple of the art artworks okay but the ship doesn't really travel to Mexico too
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often it is a Alaska sort of yeah so they'll go Alaska LA for a little bit
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and then back to Alaska makes sense yeah they stay pretty much the same unless it's been refurbished and stuff like
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this got Yeah okay good to know thank you thank you
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that one's pretty cool with the bear fishing yeah I like the bear and the moose cutie so the guy was saying that
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they don't change the art pieces whether they go to Mexico LA Europe these are
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the pieces that they use all year long they also have these cool boards on every single level it shows all the
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different bars the different lounges so this has been our favorite restaurant
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other than the steakhouse we've eaten here four of the seven nights called
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Taste and then they have the sister restaurant which is Saver
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[Music]
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oh our friend's back we got to get a drink we got to get a drink oh I guess we have to get a drink
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they got the vibes going people are playing their games so even though Dylan and I are not good beer drinkers they've
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got this whole tap room oh my friend they've got a lot of nice options these
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are people that are taking brews oh you guys don't count tequila shots or what no we're going to win if you count
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no only for the beer awesome but you need to sign the form and you need to drink all different beer the point is to
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try that's pretty cool though maybe in the future we really appreciate all you've
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done thank you thank you so much all right
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this was a great show it was so well put on every second of the show was
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perfection they were so on point just looked at every single one of the people
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on stage and they were just on it so this is the Texas Smokehouse it's also
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part of the the more at sea package all right we're heading to the
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steakhouse tonight that's my date
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last dinner better enjoy it here comes the A-list bar
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hello my love hi my love another night at this steakhouse yes we came back for seconds
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for seconds maybe even thirds got more of the bacon
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what did you get over here this is a baked onion soup and I've
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never had a true French onion soup and also she's got our other appetizers
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round two at the steakhouse same for me and same for her
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cheers to a beautiful vacation and my love for planning all this love you and
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this is how you know you're at the end of your cruise sad quick pro tip if you are planning
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your cruise we booked a room that's really far forward in the front of the boat which I thought "Oh it'll be
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great." Like front of the boat wonderful i did not think about the number of steps that would need to happen to get
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from the staircase all the way to our room which I guess is fine for us but
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for the older parents it maybe wasn't so good so I would say always pick a room
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in the middle of the boat front of the boat not great plan welcome
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to Victoria Canada
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beautiful double rainbow all the way across the sky double rainbow wow
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welcome to Victoria on Vancouver Island holy
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moly look at that sunset [Music]
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oh Canada
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[Music]
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all right here we are at the British Columbombian Parliament building so
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we're going to go ahead and walk through the park and see what there is to see
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[Music]
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strange [Music] you've heard of horsedrawn carriage but
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have you heard of a man drawn
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[Music] carriage welcome to Chinatown Victoria
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on Vancouver Island
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[Music]
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heat heat [Music]
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down down

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