Day #20…Thursday, February 19, 2015

Sea Day #1 Heading to Buenos Aires, Argentina

We arose fairly early, walked on the jogging track on Deck 19 and then started attending our scheduled day’s activities.  We went on a $1000 Treasure Hunt by having a special cruise card stamped when visiting different departments.  Tomorrow will be a drawing for prizes from each of the cruise departments we visited today.

Buenos Aires was the topic of the destination presentation by the port lecturer, Hutch.  We will be docking in that port in two days and will be taking a private tour with Frank and Judy.  A hop-on hop-off bus is available at the next two ports but we may decide to take an alternative means of transportation for touring.  Our port lecturer said the buses are very busy and often the bus stops have long waiting lines to board.

Learning the Spanish language was our next goal as we attended a presentation titled “Spanish at Sea-Basics #1.”  Bernie, the assistant cruise director, will be conducting a series of classes on this cruise and we plan to attend as many as possible.

Copacabana Beach

We played euchre in the afternoon with some cruise friends.  We also were taught a new card game called “King’s in the Corner” and plan to teach the grandchildren how to play when we get home.

Later we listened to the violinist, Greg Scott, from the UK.  His show was outstanding again and we both enjoyed his music and recognize his talent.

Tomorrow is another sea day as we are still heading to Argentina on February 21, 2015.