This is the tale of two meals, lunch and dinner. We’ll start with dinner. We ate at La Terrazza, the ships Italian restaurant. It’s fancy with 4 courses plus dessert. It was one of the two (optional) formal nights, so we made a little effort. There are fancy names for everything we had, but I’ll list the common ones. We both started with seafood stew, very yummy, but I only ate the broth and small shrimp out of mine. Andy was more adventuresome. Next came the lentil soup, the “stew” was more broth than gravy, so it was kind of like two bowls of soup. Both were very good. The third course was a pasta dish, Andy’s was tomato pasted with duck, mine was basically pasta with parmesan and garlic. Also very good. Everything so far was served with bread, so we were getting kind of full. For our main course, Andy had the swordfish, and I had lamb chops. Now we were really full, but wait, there’s more, dessert! I ate 1/2 of my very rich chocolate cake and Andy did the same with his hazelnut sponge cake. But all that food was not the highlight of the meal. Somewhere between the soups and the pasta, we saw ORCA WHALES!!! We were setting facing the front of the ship with the ocean before us and out a little ways, they crossed in front of the ship. Very cool!!
The other meal was lunch and sadly it was the worst pizza we’d ever had. The sauce was tasteless, and the pizza was covered with globs of mushy garlic. The pizza was under cooked so that the blah sauce was cold. Very disappointing. We had excellent pizza on our last cruise, and we were looking forward to more. Still can’t believe they could make such bad pizza.
Before the bad pizza and between lunch and dinner we toured Valdez. We visited some shops, one where the lady working there was quite chatty and showed us all the Alaskan artifacts the had. We didn’t think we’d ever get away, but it was interesting. We walked on the dock and the Dock Point trail, although we didn’t walk all of the trail because it was covered with snow. We saw multiple bald eagles on the utility polls at the dock. We visited the Valdez Museum and a museum about the 1964 earthquake that destroyed the town. We also walked to Mineral Creek. The Valdez Museum and the black BEAR we spotted from the Dock Point trail were the highlights of our day in Valdez. The bear was on the side of a mountain across some mud flat, so pretty far away but still exciting to see. The morning started out cool and mostly cloudy, but the sky cleared in the afternoon and we enjoyed a beautiful sunset from the upper deck of the ship.
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