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Carrie picked us up at the airport and we are home at last.
The whole adventure was absolutely fabulous and we will look forward to the next one.

TANGO IN BUENOS AIRES

Street in La Boca.
We really got into the tango!!
The tango is very important in Buenos Aires. We saw a Tango Show & Dinner at Esquina Carlos Gardel.

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA-FEBRUARY 7&8, 2011

Lemonade and a coke @ cafe outside cemetary.
Evita Peron's resting place.

Don & Nancy by Eva Peron's (Duarte) burial site.
Elaborate graves.
Inside Church @ Cemetary.
Church @ Recoleta Cemetary.
Bridge for lovers.
Park in Recoleta.
Puerto Madero district. (One of the first to be settled).
Lunch @ the famous Cafe Tortoni. (Pedro, our driver and guide in background).
Don & Pedro in May Square.
Don & Nancy in May Square.
Breakfast Buffet @ Hotel.
Our hotel-Park Hyatt Buenos Aires.
We left Crystal Symphony @ 10:00 AM and were met by our Buenos Aires guide Pedro Porqueras. We had been on board the ship for 34 days and sailed 12,404 land miles!!
Our stay in BA was for one night @ The Park Hyatt Buenos Aires and we spent 2 days touring with Pedro and then to the Airport for our 9:30PM flight to San Diego on Delta.
Home Sweet Home!!

Crystal Symphony in harbour in Montevideo from shore.
A blooming tree from our excursion bus..
Police on horseback.
Governor's house.
Bronze.
Old building that is being renovated and will be ready in 5 years.
Monument to sailors.
View of harbour.
Beach with swimmers.
Beautiful beach with town in background.
A lot of high-rise buildings.
Nancy and Don on tour of the city.

MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY-ONE OF SOUTH AMERICA'S SISTER CITIES-2-6-11

Uruguay is one of South America's smallest countries. In addition, it has no extraordinary ancient history or colonial past similar to that of Peru or even Mexico. It was originally founded by the Spanish before declaring their independence along with their neighbor Argentina.
The port of Montevideo is the country's only large city. It houses more than half the nation's population; it is one of the continent's major sea ports; it is home to much of the South Atlantic fishing fleet; and a marvelous destination for those who want to get away from South America's well-traveled routes.

CRUISING TO MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011.

We are on our last sea day. Tomorrow is Montevideo, Uruguay and then we disembark in Buenos Aires on Monday, February 7. We will spend 2 days in BA and then board our Delta plane @ 9:30 PM on Tuesday. We will be in San Diego at 10:00 AM on Wed.

Museum with dinosaurs.

The town of Puerto Madryn.
Our ship in the harbour next to another ship The Discovery.
Town.
Town.
Cute.

PUERTO MADRYN, ARGENTINA: A WELSH ENCLAVE-FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The tiny town Argentine town of Puerto Madryn lies on the western shores of Golfo Nuevo where the warm South Atlantic waters from Brazil provide a protected environment for a variety of animals, birds and sea creatures that come here to bear their young.
A Welsh gentleman in 1865 by the name of Viscount Parry Madryn emigrated from Wales to this part of Argentina along with several families who wanted to escape the Welsh mining towns. The Argentine government gave the families 247 acres of land and thus began "New Wales".
There is a promontory known as Punta Loma that is known as an important breeding spot for sea lions and a nature reserve has been established here.
Don went to see the wildlife and I walked the town.

AT SEA, EN ROUTE TO PUERTO MADRYN, ARGENTINA-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3.

We always have a full day at sea with fabulous lectures, Bingo, Bridge lessons and duplicate play, movies @ The Hollywood Theatre, dance lessons, art lessons, Yamaha lessons and today there is a Grand Gala Buffet and in the afternoon a tour of the Galley!(Crystal's Kitchen) Guests aboard a typical cruise consume over 50 lbs. of caviar, 4,000 lbs. of fresh fish, 30,000 eggs, 300 lbs. of fresh strawberries and well over four tons of bananas, oranges, mango, papayas, and melons. WOW!

The amazing King Penguins. (All dressed up and no place to go!)

Steve, Don and Nancy with the 4x4.( 7 hours riding in it!!!)
Lady Elizabeth-wrecked and left in the 1800's.
Memorial to the Falkland War in 1982 when Argentina tried to take over the Islands from the United Kingdom. The effort failed.
The governor's house right in the middle of town.
The Argentine Army put 35,ooo land mines in the countryside when they occupied the Islands in the 1982 War and they are still there today.

House in the Falklands. Many have brightly colored roofs.
Sheep that have been sheared in pen.
Rugged topography of land.
Magellanic Penguins who live in holes on the island.
King Penguins are so much fun to watch.
Some of these penguins have babies between their legs.
Don and Nancy among the colony of King Penguins.
Sign about the Penguins.
Our 5 hours in the 4x4 with Steve. Don in front seat. They drive on the opposite side of the road.
Sheep in the countryside.