On August 26th, we boarded Holland America’s Koningsdam and embarked on a 7-day roundtrip cruise to Alaska!

We got up super early at 6 AM. Given we usually wake up at around 8 AM, this felt rough. We had to drop off our dog at our dogsitter’s in Maple Ridge, which takes us about an hour to drive there. Then we drove an hour back, and took an Uber to head down to Canada Place. Boarding took a bit as they put us in holding areas after customs, but soon enough we were on a 7-day ride aboard the Koningsdam!