Recently, I had (and took) the opportunity to go on a big ship cruise. This is not something that I had ever thought that I would do. But for an older family member's significant birthday? What the hey, I'll try anything once. So off we all went for a seven day tour of Alaska's Inland Passage.
The cruise itself was nice. The Middle School Daughter and I had a few adventures hiking, kayaking and zip-lining. We saw whales and glaciers from the deck of the cruise liner which was cool (though a bit surreal, what with looking at receding glaciers from the deck of this diesel and hollandaise fueled behemoth). And we were force-ably unplugged. Or mostly.