Chapter 636: Juno
But none of this is a problem now, because the ship is not full at all, with only about 1,500 passengers on board, scattered among the ship's restaurants, and there is little chance that it will catch up with the full.
What are you going to do after lunch? You can't take a nap until the evening and then have dinner. There are many entertainment facilities on board for passengers to spend time, those who like elegant art can go to art exhibitions and concerts, those who like to relax can go to watch movies or surf the Internet, those who like to be in the limelight and have money in their pockets can go to auctions, children can play various game consoles, women can go to SPA, and men can go to bars.
But I don't like these Hongtao very much, what should I do? It doesn't matter, the steamship company has also fully considered for laypeople like Hong Tao, and there is another place for people like him, and that is the casino.
Gambling is basically part of human nature, whether you have money or no money, status or not, IQ or not, as long as the conditions are met, everyone is willing to give it a try. Now Hong Tao meets this condition, because he has nowhere to go, compared to the cinema and concert hall, he thinks that the casino, which usually doesn't look too cold, now looks very cute.
The casino on the ship is not big, dozens of slot machines, 4 tables of baccarat, and there is a separate small hall next door to play card games, which Hong Tao is not very good at, so he didn't go to join in the fun. He loves the slot machine the most, and when he was in Toronto, he and Zhou Dajiang made a small fortune on it, so he pulled Erin for $100 in change and went to the slot machine first.
To cut a long story short, by the time of dinner, Hong Tao had lost a total of $170 here, Erin had won more than $50, and after the plus-minus, he lost $120.
"Let's just buy two winter suits." For yourself this bad luck. Hong Tao is very able to find a reassuring pill for himself to eat.
"Okay, I'll treat you to dinner, who let me win today!" Erin and Hong Tao's economy is independent of each other, so she uses her own money, which is particularly proud at this time.
"Cut, it's only 50 dollars, and I'm embarrassed to say that I ...... when I was in Toronto" Hong Tao was very disdainful of Irene's villainous performance, so he mentioned his feat for the Nth time.
"You've told me a million times that Sam said when one often thinks back to the past. It means that this person is old, are you old? Erin impatiently pinched Hong Tao's face to make sure it was relaxed.
For dinner, the two of them changed to another restaurant, although this restaurant does not have a large glass window to watch the waves while eating, but the style is a little higher. The tables were filled with real candles, the lights in the dining room were dim, and the waiters walked like ghosts drifting on the carpet without a sound, except for the slight clash of knives and forks. It was the jingle of the piano at the entrance of the restaurant.
Erin didn't know if she really understood or faked, anyway, after coming here, her sitting posture was different, her back was straight, her neck was stiff, and she only rolled her eyelids when she looked at people. Never look up. Hong Tao was affected by the atmosphere here, and he couldn't swing Erlang's legs back and forth, so he could only squat on the chair for a horse step and insist on eating the dessert. Then he fled to the deck to relax, preferring to blow a cold wind on the deck rather than go back and suffer again.
After dinner, the cruise ship officially became lively. The passengers, who had been hiding in the cabin during the day, came out of every corner, dressed like dogs, and began to cruise through the theaters, bars, and dance halls, and even on the deck there were many people standing, some taking pictures, some chatting. At this time, all the lights on the outside of the cruise ship are lit up, and even the nearby sea water is illuminated, and if you look at it from a distance, it looks like a moving city.
On the evening of the first day, there was an important program, that is, the captain would address all the passengers in the largest theater, and then there was a gala with singing and dancing performances, acrobatics, talk shows, etc., just like our Spring Festival Gala, which lasted until 1 o'clock in the morning. Hong Tao and Erin didn't join in the fun, they went to the bar to dance, there were more young people here, and the atmosphere was more cheerful. People who don't know each other can sit at the bar and chat, and when they see beautiful ladies, they can come up and dance or something, and they don't have to worry about their wives getting mad, because she or they have already danced with people they don't know.
Life on a cruise ship is probably so much, it is most appropriate to describe it as drunk and dreaming of death, there is no positive factor at all, Hong Tao is hard to imagine, when he wanted a transoceanic cruise ship like the Titanic, he stayed on it for more than half a month, how do you have to live this day, no wonder that ROSE is going to have an affair, the days are too boring and unbearable.
Hong Tao didn't have to have an affair, because the next morning he would arrive at the first stop of the trip, an American city called Juno, which was the first stop of the cruise ship after entering Alaska.
When the sun rose in the early morning, the cruise ship slowed down a little at full speed, and then slowly approached the coast, and in the distant mountains appeared the entrance to a large channel, from which the cruise ship drove in and continued north.
The straits here are not as beautiful as the fjords of Norway, mainly because the mountains on both sides are not so high and not as steep, but they are similar in form. After continuing to drive for 2 and a half hours, the cruise ship slowed down again, and at the same time, one or two small fishing boats or small yachts could be seen on the water from time to time.
When the cruise ship slowed down for the third time, a relatively flat area finally appeared on the coast in front of the left, where there was a building, but Hong Tao swept it from the camera lens, there seemed to be only one building with more than 10 floors, and there were no more than 10 buildings that could be called buildings.
The bun has meat, not on the pleats! Don't underestimate this Juno City, when Hong Tao got off the boat and came to the dock to see the introduction of this city, he was immediately scorched by it. This small place is actually the largest city in the United States, and it is larger than the entire state of Delaware. But if you look closely, you will understand that these Yankees are really good, and Juno is not only a city, but also a county. There is only one Juno City in Juno County, so the county and city are united, Juno City is Juno County, and Juno County is also Juno City.
With a population of just over 30,000 and all but a few fishermen, all of whom live on tourism, are clean and have no factories, with the strait in front and the forested mountains in the back.
The street in front of the pier is the widest road in Juneau, with a total length of 17 kilometers, and of course, the most prosperous place in the city is also the pier. However, this wharf in Juno City is really embarrassing, the waiting hall is like a simple factory, the cement floor of the wharf is not completely paved, and after Hong Tao they walked down the trestle, it was stones and loess.
Although it is a tourist area, there is not a single vendor who sells things, there is no shop to buy tourist souvenirs, and there is no fake jewelry and fake calligraphy and painting that can not be found.
As the passengers on the ship disembarked one after another, the cruise ship staff wearing red vests began to work again, and they were the ones who came to guide and guide the way when they first got on the ship, and now they are still on the boat, and it is estimated that this is also professional.
Don't think that Hong Tao and Erin spent more than $3,000 on this trip, even if they get it, it's just the cost of eating, drinking, living and traveling on the ship, if you want to play Alaska perfectly, it will cost money!
What makes it perfect? Now here's the opportunity, with dozens of tour buses parked on the pier, dozens of small yachts parked under the pier, and a cable car station next to the marina, these are the perfect opportunities.
Buses are used to see glaciers, yachts are whales, and cable cars are to be taken up the mountain to see the scenery. Not many of these projects cost a single fee, and no one ranges from a few dozen dollars to more than a hundred dollars.
But this is not a fraud to the consumer, because before buying the ticket, the steamship company will explain these charges to the passengers, and the bartender's sister also explained to Hong Tao. These items can be purchased when you buy a ferry ticket, or you can decide whether to play or not when you go to the local area.
Hong Tao was a thief, so he didn't pay in advance, and planned to go to the place to have a look. This is the experience, because there was a heavy fog at sea that day, so the activity of going out to sea to see whales is basically scrapped, and you still have to go, but the chance of seeing whales is very slim. As for doing a cable car up the mountain, Hong Tao also vetoed it, in this season, what scenery can you see on the mountain? Purely and the northwest wind went.
The most valuable thing should be to see the glacier, so Hong Tao and Erin bought tickets and boarded the bus to the glacier called Mendenhall. As for those who paid in advance for whale watching and cable car rides, they had to knock out their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs.
From this point of view, tourists who go out from China generally have a lot of travel experience, and domestic travel companies, whether it is Europe, America or Africa travel companies are weak, the only hope to catch up with these domestic travel companies is those in Southeast Asia, they are a bit of a laggard. This should also be a big game of chess for domestic tourism companies, using a cruel way to fully cultivate the sense of distress of domestic tourists, so as not to be cheated by foreigners when they go abroad in the future. Your own people pit your own people, how can you count the meat rotting in the pot, isn't it?
This glacier is very close to the city of Juneau, and you can drive along the most NB road here to the end, and it is worth this road to build the road under the glacier! Not to mention, this is really a glacier, and at the end of the road is a lake between two mountains, and on the opposite side of the lake is a valley of two mountains, and the valley is covered with snow, which is very thick and thick, and it actually accumulates halfway up the mountain. (To be continued......)