In no particular order, other than the first one:
- getting married to Trish in Juneau, at 7 p.m. August 26
- dancing the foxtrot with my brand-new wife, to "The Best Is Yet to Come"
- finishing third in a $100 poker tournament, one spot shy of moving on to the final table
- posing like C-3PO for a photo op with an R2-D2 mailbox in Juneau
- playing an old piano at the Red Onion Saloon, a onetime bordello in Skagway
- finishing second to an 11-year-old Chinese kid in a chess tournament, after a pretty good two-way battle
- Paying two bucks to Google "How to fold a pocket square" with my best man and best friend, Shawn Dixson, in the frantic minutes before the wedding
- hanging out with some of our group in an otherwise deserted lounge, listening to the music and stories of one Steve Christie, who turned out to be a hidden treasure
- belting Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man" at the karaoke bar
- savouring the old-world elegance of the Hotel Vancouver the night before the cruise
- seeing the ice calving off the Hubbard Glacier
- watching Shawn and Trish's maid of honour, her sister Cathy, rise to the occasion with great, wonderfully appropriate speeches at the post-wedding dinner
- seeing a dolphin right below our balcony, keeping pace with the ship
- eating more over seven days than I thought possible, gaining four pounds in the process
- drinking an inadvisable amount of champagne with family, to use up all the bottles we had accumulated
In no particular order, other than the first one:
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