MONDAY, JANUARY 31 - At Sea

The night turned to pea soup and we slept to the sound of the fog horn all night as the ship moved around some. It is not getting light until almost 8AM so we sleep in. Thank goodness we can eat breakfast in the dinning room today. Dick doesn’t like eating in the room.

We go our separate ways after breakfast. Dick goes back to the room to work on the pictures and the blog. Carolyn goes to the lecture on the glaciers coming up. She is heading back to the room and gets waylaid by a new jigsaw puzzle set up outside of the coffee bar. She and several Dutch ladies work for an hour or more getting the border picked out.

It is now almost 1PM so Carolyn checks with Dick about lunch, but he passes. She goes to the dinning room and has some of a seafood platter then retires to a now favorite corner in the Mariner Lounge to watch the sea and read. The seas are very high today and the ship is really moving about.

About 5PM the Captain announces we are running against a 1 knot current, head winds and high seas and are losing time. We will be three hours late to Puerto Montt in the morning. The good news though is that the port authorities have found the Mariner a place on their small dock so we won’t have to tender as planned. He says this will enable the tour department to run the tours as planned with only minor time changes. All this is good news as far as we are concerned. We have elected for a short afternoon tour to the lake district. We can’t face another all day affair on the poor quality of buses in this area.

Tired of going to dinner so early, we mess around and plan on going to dinner about 7:30PM. The Compass Rose menu looks good tonight..it is one of the better one we have had. However, by the time Carolyn starts to get dressed, the idea of sitting though the meal downstairs doesn’t appeal. Dick goes on and Carolyn gets her night gown on and orders fettuccine Alfredo, a salad, hot tea and cookies from room service. Ahhh...the pleasure of cruising!