In August 2010, my mom, some of her relatives, and I went on a cruise in Alaska on the Holland America ship MS Oosterdam. It was fun, but fraught with difficulty. For one thing, Mom had fallen on the driveway about a week before the cruise, and she had back pain and had to use a walker. But we got to see various sights in Alaska, such as Glacier Bay, Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan (well, not so much; it was raining that day) and Victoria, BC.