{"id":717,"date":"2016-09-12T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T19:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2016-09-12T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T19:20:26","slug":"north-to-alaska-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"North to Alaska &#8211; Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 10, 2016<\/p>\n<p>We are spending most of today &#8220;At Sea&#8221;. I already showed some of the things there are to do on board the ship, so I won&#8217;t repeat.<\/p>\n<p>We will arrive in Victoria, British Columbia about 7 o&#8217;clock this evening. We will only be here about 4 hours. \u00a0This is the only stop we will make that is not in the United States. British Columbia is in Canada, for those who were absent that day in geography class.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has very strict laws against gambling, so they are going to close the Casino at 1 pm this afternoon when we get into Canadian waters. \u00a0Bummer.<\/p>\n<p>After that, we sail back to the good old United States of America, arriving in Seattle about 10 o&#8217;clock on Sunday morning. Then it is back to Austin for me and planning my next trip.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pics of Victoria:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-724\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria2.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"victoria2\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria2.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been to a lot of places around the world, but this is the first time I have been to Canada:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-723\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria1.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"victoria1\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria1.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the walk into town, I ran into this guy looking for a free meal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria4.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-726\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria4.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"victoria4\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria4.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria4.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the harbor at Victoria, there were lots of houseboats like this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-725\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria3.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"victoria3\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria3.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My ship is in the middle of these 3 ships. The Captain had to back into the parking spot &#8211; a little more difficult than your typical parallel parking:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria5.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-727\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria5.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"victoria5\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria5.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shanahanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/victoria5.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, the cruise is over and we are back in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 10, 2016 We are spending most of today &#8220;At Sea&#8221;. I already showed some of the things there are to do on board the ship, so I won&#8217;t repeat. We will arrive in Victoria, British Columbia about 7 o&#8217;clock this evening. We will only be here about 4 hours. \u00a0This is the only stop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/?p=717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North to Alaska &#8211; Day 7<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph7A2m-bz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanahanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}