We did return to the beautiful ocean blue water! We visited Puerto Madryn today and took a tour with other friends we have met on the ship. We did not have an English speaking guide and non of us spoke Spanish so it was sort of like charades?!?! We went to Punta Loma which is a breeding ground for the amazing South American Sea Lions. We were very close as these huge males protected their territory. The male weighs as much as 2100 lbs and is 3 times the size ...

Our first port is Montevideo, Uruguay. We found a tour of this capital city interesting. This city claims that the tango originated here but we think the Argentines would disagree. The tour took us to Independence square with it's impressive mausoleum and monument honoring their national hero General Jose Gervasio Artigas. We took a drive along the beaches of Rio de la Plata with a panaramic view of the city. The ocean water here is very brown. The locals cla...

Today we began our 14 day cruise on "Norwegian Sun". We'll travel south around the southern tip of South America ending in Santiago Chili. We have beautiful weather as we sail out of the harbor!

This was our last full day in Buenos Aires. We attended a dinner at restaurant "The Argentine Experience". There were 16 people attending and we put on our aprons and chef hats and learned to make empanadas, alfajores (cookies filled with caramel,rolled in coconut and dipped in chocolate" and mate (argentine tea). We learned more about the traditions and had the best steak we've probably ever had. The evening had unlimited wine tasting which also seems to be...

We had a full day in beautiful Buenos Aires. We started our day with a Tigre Delta River Cruise. This took us to the city of Tigre where we boarded a boat to cruise through the islands to see vacation homes and year round residents. They receive their supplies via a supermarket boat that delivers to their docks. People were swimming and playing in this river but I don't think I would enter this very brown water. The Delta River is the widest River in the worl...