Saturday, 25 January, 2014
Another beautiful day in the South Atlantic with calm seas, beautiful crisp blue skies, and much warmer temperatures than what we've been experiencing. We're still en-route to Punta de Este, Uruguay, with an expected arrival of 8AM tomorrow morning. We'll then be tendered from our ship for a day in the beautiful beach side resort city. Today we enjoyed Dr. Michael Wilcox's final lecture of the cruise, this time on John Harrison, the man who invented chronometers which enabled early sea navigators to finally overcome the greatest challenge of their time, exactly how to accurately estimate their longitudinal positions while crossing the oceans of the world. He was followed by a Q&A hour with our 5 Antarctic experts. Both seminars were very interesting, and we're all going to miss the time we've share with these experts.
We finished the day of on board entertainment with an hour of Elvis Presley, which was performed by our own Fun For Less tour guide Kerry Summers. Marla and I are not necessarily Elvis fans, but we have to admit that Kerry put on a really good show. He is also an excellent magician and ventriloquist and has done shows on both of those also.
Dinner followed a short time later and this was another one of those to remember. It began with a huge orange shrimp cocktail, then Escargot Bourguignon in a garlic butter Burgundy wine sauce. I've never eaten snails before, and they were actually very good. Chilled Anjou Pear soup soon followed, and then came the entree. Tonight we enjoyed Rock Lobster Tail and Filet Mignon, again, with garlic-butter mushroom Basmati rice and sauteed mixed vegetables. Dessert was Pineapple sorbet for Marla and I succumbed and enjoyed rhubarb crisp topped with vanilla ice cream. Oh my goodness. We're really being spoiled and need to leave this scene pretty soon or we'll have to roll off the ship.
We'll close this blog post tonight with a very special wish for a Happy Birthday to our oldest son Tom in Fruit Heights, Utah. Wish we could be there to celebrate with you but we'll be there soon. Our love to everyone.
Tom and Marla
Another beautiful day in the South Atlantic with calm seas, beautiful crisp blue skies, and much warmer temperatures than what we've been experiencing. We're still en-route to Punta de Este, Uruguay, with an expected arrival of 8AM tomorrow morning. We'll then be tendered from our ship for a day in the beautiful beach side resort city. Today we enjoyed Dr. Michael Wilcox's final lecture of the cruise, this time on John Harrison, the man who invented chronometers which enabled early sea navigators to finally overcome the greatest challenge of their time, exactly how to accurately estimate their longitudinal positions while crossing the oceans of the world. He was followed by a Q&A hour with our 5 Antarctic experts. Both seminars were very interesting, and we're all going to miss the time we've share with these experts.
We finished the day of on board entertainment with an hour of Elvis Presley, which was performed by our own Fun For Less tour guide Kerry Summers. Marla and I are not necessarily Elvis fans, but we have to admit that Kerry put on a really good show. He is also an excellent magician and ventriloquist and has done shows on both of those also.
Dinner followed a short time later and this was another one of those to remember. It began with a huge orange shrimp cocktail, then Escargot Bourguignon in a garlic butter Burgundy wine sauce. I've never eaten snails before, and they were actually very good. Chilled Anjou Pear soup soon followed, and then came the entree. Tonight we enjoyed Rock Lobster Tail and Filet Mignon, again, with garlic-butter mushroom Basmati rice and sauteed mixed vegetables. Dessert was Pineapple sorbet for Marla and I succumbed and enjoyed rhubarb crisp topped with vanilla ice cream. Oh my goodness. We're really being spoiled and need to leave this scene pretty soon or we'll have to roll off the ship.
We'll close this blog post tonight with a very special wish for a Happy Birthday to our oldest son Tom in Fruit Heights, Utah. Wish we could be there to celebrate with you but we'll be there soon. Our love to everyone.
Tom and Marla
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