South America Cruise Dec 2014 Day 14 Recovering At Sea

        We are on our post trip day trying to get back to normal after the long days and hours of travel. Judy started with a cold yesterday and now it is fully blown! As a result we did not do much. A light breakfast – I think that we have hit the food wall- after which we went to the port lecture for our next stop tomorrow which is the last day before we get to Santiago and the end of this cruise. It seems that there is enough to do in this location. It is in Chile so that will give us a new set of custom forms. After the lecture we tried to book an “on your own” type of tour but found out the one we wanted was fully booked. Tried for a different time slot and found it was booked as well. We finally opted for what was left which will be good (museum visit and city drive) but not generally our cup of tea! 

The Inca Eggers

          The big event of the day was the egg drop contest. You need to drop a raw egg from deck 7 to deck 5. The object is to drop an egg from deck 7 to the floor of deck 5. The galleries judged the best and since we had 6 on our team, we could make enough noise. Next time we need lobby the crowd beforehand. We made a lot of noise. Lil one of the members bought us hats and you can see that in the photo. The winning entry was quite superior. There were 3 stuffed animals that came down one at a time. The last one was a monkey with a parachute with the egg stuffed up – you get the idea! Later we found out that the person has been on 31 cruises. He was very prepared to this. We used a rain poncho stuffed with balloons. A cute idea was an umbrella which came in second. It was a lot of fun but we did miss one of the DNA lectures because of it.

After The Drops

There were 13 entries and only the last one broke. It was basically a zip bag tossed over the edge. We placed 3rd because we could yell loud enough.

           The afternoon was spent in our cabin as I caught up on our post. Judy stayed in bed and watched 2 movies. It was also formal night which meant getting dressed up for the farewell Atrium event although neither of us felt up to it. We have not been to Skywalkers in 2 days and need to go see our friends there! 

        We had our drinks, and have a nice dinner. We chatted about our drop adventure. Neither of the other 2 couples st our table which made up our team had even seen it before.

Formal Night Dress

        Because it was formal night lobster and giant prawns were on the menu. I went to the show and Judy went to bed. A few minutes later she was back. She has a habit of putting her cruise card in her purse that has a magnetic clasp. Needless to say the magnet does a job on the card. She is on her 3^rd card. We watched the show which we quickly realize we had seen before. We were glad to carry on after that!