Day #21…Friday, February 20, 2015

Sea Day #2   Heading to Buenos Aires, Argentina

We enjoyed a light breakfast this morning in the International Café.  Bonnie bought a coffee card at the beginning of the cruise and feels it is quite a bargain.   For $29.00, one can get unlimited premium coffee, special teas and hot chocolate and fifteen (15) very large specialty coffees.  She treats herself to a frozen caramel latté macchiato about every four (4) days.  The frozen coffees are bigger than Starbucks and taste even better!

The port lecture today by Hutch was titled “Destination-Montevideo, Uruguay.”  We will be cancelling our booked Princess shore excursion and then do our touring privately as we have done in several other ports.  The ship will be arriving in Montevideo on a Sunday so we have been warned that many places will be closed.  This is a disappointment for us as we were looking forward to seeing as much as possible in our eight (8) hours there.

After a Chinese-themed lunch with Bill and Stella, we participated in our first slot pull in the Gatsby’s Casino.  A fellow passenger, Murray, from Cruise Critic arranged with Princess to conduct the slot pull and it was very entertaining.  Forty (40) Cruise Critic passengers played in the tournament and each played $15.00 in a single Wheel of Fortune machine.  Though we did have fun, our group was not very lucky and we each only recouped $9.50 of our money.

In the evening, we attended another Princess Theater performance by Scott Harris, a comedian from Canada.  We enjoyed him the first time and were not disappointed to listen to his humor again.

Tomorrow we will be docking in Buenos Aires, Argentina and retired early as to be ready for a busy touring day.