We had been at Icy Strait Point only once before, on an HAL ship immediately after the COVID shut down, and I could not believe how much it had changed. First, we were one of two ships here today, along with a Disney ship (so, lots of kids), and, because the Ruby was berthed forward of that ship, we didn’t get off the ship right at the developed area.
After breakfast in the buffet, we left the ship and could have taken a lateral ski lift to that area, but there was also a nature trail to get there. We opted to walk the trail (no pics of our morning…I had neglected to charge my phone last night and the battery was exhausted). I really had just one goal in mind, to sit around the campfire that I had enjoyed so much last time we were here. More childhood memories, for sure. The air just smelled like camping.
There’s now a regular adventure park of things to do at Icy Strait Point, all of them with hefty price tags. Even the ski lift we rode for free four years ago costs $50 now. So after we had enjoyed the campfire for awhile and watched the Disney kids making s’mores, we returned to the ship, this time using the lateral ski lift because the nature trail was closed off due to a bear sighting.
We went directly to the buffet where, OMG, the Ruby Princess became the best whale watching tour ever, as two whales dove and beached right off the port side of the ship. Everyone in the buffet was pressed against the windows and food was temporarily forgotten.
We then adjourned to our favorite loungers on the Terrace Deck and later chose to stay dressed pretty casually for dinner in Michelangelo, because we had different plans for the evening.
Missed the first page of the menu…sorry!
(Too busy talking to Lana and Howard to pay attention)
Chicken lentil soup-excellent
Whole wheat pasta entree
So very bad it defies description
So, naturally, I defaulted to salmon again
The Ruby Princess was in Icy Strait Point until late tonight (9pm?) and we happened to notice that the “movie” on MUTS tonight was called The Funniest Man in the World. Googling it revealed that it was a nearly 60 year old documentary on Charlie Chaplin. Now, in the 45 years I’ve known G, we had never once had a discussion about Charlie Chaplin…until today. It turns out that we both enjoyed his movies in years past. In my case, our library used to show his movies during summer evenings, and my friends and I would ride our bikes over to watch them. I remember us all laughing uproariously, but we were kids, and laughed uproariously at a lot of things.
It was a relatively warm evening, with no wind, so we headed up to MUTS for the first time. It was a little strange watching MUTS in daylight (memories of holding loungers for Super Bowl), but the documentary was excellent, and, yes, I still laughed uproariously. I have no idea why this was shown on MUTS though. My first thought was that it was going to largely feature Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush, but it didn’t. It was more about his childhood and early career. Whatever the reason, we really enjoyed it, and the change of pace it provided.
After that, we made it an early evening. We have an early excursion for tomorrow in Skagway (what was I thinking?) and I needed my sleep.
