Saturday, November 7, 2015

Antarctica day 3: hotel check in

Woke up around 930 after falling asleep while watching ted 2 on our netbook. Had hotel brunch, showered and packed our bags. After finding the spot in our information about weight capacity of our bags, we slightly started to freak out. 20 kg for our checked bag and a measly 5kg for our hand baggage. How on earth and I supposed to carry my iPad, headphones, toiletries, back up headphones, netbook, real book, charges, purse, and other kings in 5 kg. anyway. We checked out bags at the hotel and ventured down Florida street again. Found the cafe we enjoyed the first night and had a baileys coffee And split a carne empanadas. Then we had a mimosa and split back to our hotel and attempted to check in 30 minutes early to our scheduled hotel. Got checked in grabbed our bags from the other location and brought ourstuff upstairs so we could remove the heavier items before getting weighed in. 13 kg and 4 kg and Matt's was 17 kg and 5 kg. sweet. Now after checking with he guys, we learned they will weigh our bags at the airport and if anything is over our bags won't be coming along. Poo. So back upstairs to add in our heavy objects and rearrange things hoping to meet the 50kg Max. After some adjustments. We were able to come in underweight. Just have o check my iPad the netbook our chargers and most everything. We dropped our bags off up in our room rest assured we won't be the tourists causing the weight problems on the chartered flight.

Then, with my stomach growling we set off for some pizza. Went to a place where hey had happy hour advertised previously with a patio along Florida Avenue. Ordered (with a lot of difficulty) the pizza special (grande pizza and 750ml beer). We enjoyed the margarita pizza with a lot of oregano and then waited forever to pay our bill ( come to find out apparently you need to o and seek out your server to pay the tab) and then can't forget about tipping like 10/15%. Oh did I forget to mention, it was Argentinas gay pride weekend so the entire time we were trying to enjoy a nice dinner out, there was nothing but loud drum beats, screaming persons, maxed out stereo systems and herds of people. Then after we found our tab we retreated back to our hotel room to retreat, and let introvert matt enjoy some peace and quiet. Tomorrow we embark on our flight to Ushuaia at 6am and then our cruise ship at 5pm to, the end of the world and Antarctica!! (Continent number 7!!!!)

Andrea and matt.

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