Day #25…Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Sea Day #2 Heading to the Falkland Islands

We ate a continental breakfast in the International Café and then met Bill and Stella in the Vines Bar to play euchre again.  Today is Stella’s birthday and so we will be attending formal night in the dining room in her honor.  We are finding it harder and harder to enjoy formal nights and wish this were the last one for the rest of the cruise.  Unfortunately there is one more for this segment and probably three (3) more for the next segment.  Unless we are celebrating something special, we will try to refrain from dressing formally after tonight.

Today we attended a destination presentation for Ushuaia, Argentina.  This city is on a channel near Cape Horn and will be near our furthest southern part of the cruise.  We had lunch in the Horizon Court and then returned to our cabin to review photos and write this blog.  We have been behind for several days and wanted to try to catch up on our writing before going around Cape Horn and viewing the glaciers near Antarctica.

We also viewed a video in the Princess Theater about Antarctica and found the information to be interesting and the pictures of the icebergs to be fascinating. 

Later we dined in the Botticelli Dining Room and then spent the rest of the evening in the Piazza.  Tomorrow we hope the weather conditions are conducive for the ship to be able to tender off Port Stanley in the Falklands.  We will be taking 4 X 4 vehicles there to visit the penguin reserves.  If we are lucky, we will be able to see three (3) species of penguins, some sea lions and also some dolphins. 

The weather has changed considerably today as we are traveling further south.  Tomorrow we will have to layer our clothing and dress warmly for the colder temperatures.  We hope it does not rain and that we have a pleasant weather day in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.