FUN:travel – Punta Arenas, Chile – Seabourn Cruise – Day 9
February 14, 2013 by Susan Clarke
The ABC’s of Chile
A = Awesome
B = Bummer
C = Celebration
Day 13 – Monday, February 11 – Punta Arenas, Chile – Cruise Day 9 – Cockburn Channel & Strait of Magellan – cool 50’s
- A – 8:30 wake up to hot cappuccino courtesy of my love once again
- B – pouring rain outside
- B – mountains are shrouded in fog & clouds
- 10:00 – fruit & granola w/yogurt
- A – lunch – wahoo w/risotto & spinach
- A – 12:30 – rain stops
- 2:15 – shuttle to town drops us @ main square
- 2:30 to 3:30 – nice walk down to cemetery & back
- B – not really much to see
- 4:00 – room R & R
- A – 5:00 – phone call from guest services asking if we’ll be joining the dancers table for dinner (never saw the invitation)
- A – 7:00 – Randy & Rita invited us up to their suite for wine & appetizers
- (we loaned them our rubber boots in the Falklands for their excursion & they bought us a lovely box of chocolates as a thank you)
- A – their suite is very big & nice – it’s so big they even have lounge chairs on their balcony!
- C – 7:30 – join 7 other guests @ table w/Anastasia & Sergii from the Ukraine
FF – (FUN-fact) – Punta Arenas Spanish name literally translates to Sandy Point. It has also been known as “the city of red roofs” for the red painted metal roofs that characterized the city for many years.