I Booked the Wrong Cruise and Somehow Found Paradise

Here's the thing about me: I'm not tech-savvy, but I'm also stubborn enough to think I am. So when my best friend Marcus texted me that Holland America Line was having a killer Labor Day sale, I immediately opened my laptop and started booking without my reading glasses. Spoiler alert: this decision haunted me for approximately four minutes before becoming the greatest accident of my vacation history. I was supposed to be lounging on the Nieuw Amsterdam's lido deck with a piña colada in my hand, watching the turquoise waters of the Caribbean slide past while I worked on my "summer bod." You know, the whole cliché cruise experience everyone Instagram stories about. Instead, I somehow managed to click on the Alaska itinerary button instead of the Caribbean one. I didn't realize my mistake until I received my confirmation email three days later, already had paid for it in full, and discovered that my "tropical paradise cruise" was actually a seven-day Inside Passage adventure through glaciers, totem poles, and what I could only assume would be a lot of people in fleece jackets. I immediately called Holland America Line's customer service, ready to beg them to switch my booking. The a…