Just got home from the southbound trip and really enjoyed reading along to this! Seems getting sick is happening to a large part of the cruisers from the groups I'm in, thankfully me and my now-fiance (We got engaged in Hoonah!) seem to have escaped it so far but giving in a couple more days before I can say we're in the clear! Glad that the last-half of the cruise had some nice weather to make up for that incredibly rough 1st sea day and Juneau, and the Northern Lights were such a treat, it really was a bucket list item for us both! The staff was fantastic like you said, it definitely felt like a special ship. Sadly our paths didn't cross so we could celebrate those two Canucks wins but I'm glad you had a great time as well 🥳