South America Cruise Dec 2014 Day 15 Last Sea Day

         We are on our last sea day before our port tomorrow. We arrive in Santiago the next day. We had another time change last night and so we got up at the same time but the clock reads an hour later. We had a call from the tour desk again today. They had wait listed us on the original tour that we wanted. As a result we finally got the Coquimbo on your own tour. We had just finished paying most of our ship account a few minutes before. I like to pay it off before they put it on our credit card. Then we get the tour we wanted so now we will have a big credit because of the price difference. We also noted that Princess did not charge us the daily automatic tip rate for the days that we were off the ship. I don't think that was a mistake. It must be their policy and probably based on many complaints from past cruises. It was a pleasant surprise. Now we need to get a cash refund because we overpaid.            We also took in a line dance class for a chance to move around a bit. It is still windy and a bit cooler and we have not felt much like walking the last few days. After the late breakfast neither of us felt much like lunch. We wandered to the buffet for some “light” eats!

Fighting A Cold

Today was the last of the enrichment lectures. This one was on Identifying the Famous and the Infamous. It included Jesse James and Copernicus. As always it was very entertaining. That was followed by my love to hate guy doing a Santiago Chile port lecture. Good info bad presentation skills. Judy went for a nap as she is still fighting the cold. While she rested, I went to view the video that the photo department shot while on our Machu Piccho trip. It was good but did not include anything about the people that went. The were asking about $50 for the 20 minute production. As someone said, if I want to pay that much I will buy the National Geographic video.

       Tango dancers, dinner including the baked Alaska parade and the crew show finished the evening.