We had a great week on our cruise to the Alaska.  Let’s talk about our Norwegian Bliss first.  We loved our stateroom; even though the room was small, but it was efficient.  The best part was having the balcony; with the door opened and having a breeze to the room made a huge difference.  The scenery in Alaska was breathtaking, and it was awesome to sit out on the balcony or looking out while we laid on bed.  We took breaks in the room sometimes; the boys enjoyed playing on their tablets while Stuart and I took naps.  Even though we slept in quite late some mornings, taking nap in the afternoon was still needed and quite enjoyable.  The one very sad thing was that Logan got seasick on day 2.  He was well on Day 1 even after the cruise had taken off, so I made a mistake in letting my guard down.  With just the wristbands on, Logan became sick the next morning while looking for a table with his breakfast plate.  Once we found the table, he told Stuart and he was out of commission the entire morning and part of the afternoon.  We tried different medicines and ended up giving him one of the patches my doctor gave me.  Stuart spent time with him in our room and Logan was able to fall asleep finally with the nice breeze.  He was very uncomfortable before that and it was very sad to watch him.  Finally the patch kicked in and before dinner time, he revived and was his happy self the rest of the trip.  He loved his “bandage’ as he called it.  

     We really liked the “free-style” dining on the ship; we could go eat in different restaurants whenever we wanted.  Our first lunch after boarding the ship was having a beer and a burger at a bar restaurant which was a great start.  The boys’ favorite was the Garden Cafe for buffet; they enjoyed picking out their favorites on their own, and they surely were creatures of habits, eating similar things for the different meals.  The staff lady who sprayed our hands with sanitizer when we entered the cafe saying “Washy Washy Happy Happy” had become the talk of the ship.  We also had some other nice meals at the complimentary restaurants.  Stuart and I also had the specialty dining package, so we had chosen BBQ, steakhouse and teppanyaki for 3 of our nights.  We also enjoyed our free beverages.  Stuart had found one of the bars as his favorite as it had a tap beer that he really liked; some evenings we would just walk by there so he could get a drink.  I also enjoyed having wine with dinners and cocktails at other occasions. 

     The boys’ favorite spot was definitely the arcade, but we could only allow them to go periodically before our room charge added up too fast.  Logan liked the pirate shooting game the most while Connor loved the Deal and No Deal game.  Speaking of this game, we also enjoyed watching all the live shows held by the cruise directors; we tried to make to most of the game shows at the Atrium based on the schedule.  Logan would quickly sneak up to a gap between some front row seats and sat down on the ground to watch, and Connor would follow him.  The Deal and No Deal show was definitely our favorite to watch which happened a few times, and we played along on one of them.  We also tried Bingo one day as well.  The Splash Academy (kid club) was not as much of a hit for the boys and their only preferred time there was the “free play” time.  The boys ended up spending just a little bit each day there while Stuart and I would go off for a drink or played a little slot machine.  We all went to watch a musical Havana together one night; the boys enjoyed it.  With the other musical, Jersey Boys, due to the language issue, we decided to leave the boys in the room while we watched on our own.  They were more than happy to play with game until we came back.  There were also some singing performance throughout the ships or lounges that we spent some time hanging out as well. 

     One of the days was quite warm, and the boys could spend a little time playing at the water area shooting water. They did not care to try the water slide.  They did jump into the pool just to get in to the front row in the water to watch the “Mr. Sexy Leg” contest at poolside.  We also played miniature golf and ping pong a couple of times on some days.  The two selling points for this cruise ship were the GoKart and lasertag.  Logan was looking forward to playing laser tag as soon as we got onto the ship, and Connor also wanted to try it for the first time, but we found out on the first day that it was mostly reserved, and we were able to book only to Day7 in the evening.  This turned out to be a disappointment as we reported to the upper deck on Day7, we were informed that the guns were broken and it had to be cancelled.  The boys and of course me too were quite disappointed.  We did play the GoKart.  The boys would not dare to drive the single kart, so we booked the double karts.  Logan contemplated to drive and finally decide to while I would be his passenger, but we were told that the wheel was hard to turn, Logan asked to switch spots.  I however turned out to be the slowest GoKart driver ever, but Logan was fine with that.  Stuart and Connor enjoyed it, but we were only able to drive a few laps. Glad that at least we gave this a try.

   The ports at Alaska were also our highlights of the trip, and more on those later.  Here are the photos of our entire trip.