We’re going on a CRUISE!

.. to VANCOUVER!

We are poor folk (mostly because of my uncontrollable iTunes spending) who can’t really afford to cruise anywhere exotic or far away, but that doesn’t mean I can’t make the most of adventures we CAN take. Stephanie (she of the awesome Domo cake) sent me a link to a series of 1-day cruises in the Pacific Northwest, and I was intrigued. I’ve never been on any kind of cruise outside of my imagination (when the floor was made of lava), so this has the potential to be an epic, affordable weekend of fun.

The 1-day cruises are offered by Holland America, and you can go from Vancouver to Seattle or vice versa on multiple dates in September. That just happens to be our anniversary month, so I booked us in for a cruise that leaves Seattle on Sunday evening and gets into Vancouver early the next morning. We get dinner and an ocean-view stateroom (I’ve never had sex on a boat – solo sex and group sex yes, but never 1v1) as we sail through the night.

If that wasn’t enough fun, we needed a way to get to Seattle that didn’t involve the car – so I booked us on the train. We leave for Seattle on Saturday evening via Amtrak, getting us there late that night. I haven’t decided what we’re going to do before the boat leaves the next day, but I’m hoping it’ll be restful because I don’t really plan to sleep on the boat (bwah chika bwah bwah there’ll be too much to look at). TRAIN! And BOAT! I can’t wait – Ed’s never been on the train before, and I haven’t in a very long time. We’ve always talked about taking the train somewhere but it’s hard to justify the time and cost with the $50 or so in gas it takes to drive the Mazdabator down. A one-way trip, though, was just MADE for train travel.

I am so, so excited. I love the fall and the ocean and the Pacific Northwest and complicated adventures, and this is all of them wrapped up in a relatively cheap little package. Stephanie has awesome ideas, and we’re on the same cruise she is – clearly, #hipstersonaboat will be an excellent time. I’m trying to convince other people to join us, because More People can only make this adventure More Fun.

Is it too early to pack? What does one wear on a boat, anyway?