Sunday, November 8, 2015

Antarctica day 5: embarking on the cruise

Wake up call at 430 am. Yuck. Got ready. Packed our bags and headed downstairs for 5am breakfast. They took our bags and we headed to the breakfast hall for meat cheese bread breakfast with scrambled eggs and meat. Then we hopped onto the first coach bus to the airport. Forty minutes later we arrive. Took 5 minutes to get through security and had to sit in the tiny packed airport or two hours. Matt's favorite. We ordered 2 bottled waters (not chancing it with tap water) and a coffee. For 11 dollars. Just as pricey here as back home :-/. Then before we knew it. We were boarding the bus to take us to our md 80 for the 2.5 hour flight to Ushuaia. Of course there were two people that missed the boarding so we were stuck waiting for them. Found them and we were off. Matt and I began the series game of thrones. The last 40 minutes of the flight we were between the Andes and some other mountain range. Landed and were ushered to a bus to drive us into town. Our guide said we were able to bring our own liquor so we walked the town trying to find something. As we would be gone for 10 days! Found some, and a big bottle of water then walked trying to find a restaurant for some fresh king crab. Found one that had Parmesan crusted king crab (for 31$). We split it grabbed our tab and we're off to the parking lot to meet the tour group. Next is boarding, finding out room and setting sail across the drake. Someone else had been looking at the weather and said that the drake is like a lake now, not others that have been here spoke stories of being tossed out of bed in the middle of the night. We shall see!

We will have to pay for wifi so we may try just to post every two or three days. If we can! Who knows!

From the end of the world, matt and andrea

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