We woke late and made it to breakfast. The seas were still quite high and the rocking has gone on all night long. No one has seen Sara for a full day now…word has it that she is sequestered in her room heavily medicated for sea=sickness. The rest of our group eventually made it to the dining room for a quick breakfast. Today we where offered two presentations. One was a documentary of a ship to sail around Cape Horn. The footage was filmed in 1927. It was very interesting. The hard part was watching the ship on film rocking and rolling as were we at the same time.
The second presentation was a slide show of snapshots taken during the polar plunge. We all had a great laugh watching each other’s faces as we bobbed up and down on the cold water. Lunch was at 12:30 PM today with pizza as the main course. Afterwards we laid low and simply watched the waves and the rocking of the boat.
At about 3PM we sighted land and knew at once that the rough part was almost over. By 6PM things has calmed down quite a bit and at the Captain’s dinner we all enjoyed a calm dining room and a lovely dinner of Filet Mignon with all the trimmings. Then it was off to bed as we have an early morning and a full day tomorrow as we set off for Patagonia.
Antarctica, for Tom anyway, the absolutely most cool thing ever done. Absolutely amazing!
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