I’d ordered coffee for 7.30am and we both had such a good sleep that it was room service knocking on the door which wakened us. We must be near the kitchen as our coffee was nice and hot – often it’s quite cold by the time we get it. 

So we enjoyed that and then got showered and dressed and headed up to Horizon court for breakfast.  As we were walking in I spotted Nana.  We met Nana on our very first Princess cruise on the Diamond – she was our waitress in the dining room each night – she’s from Thailand and tiny with the most infectious giggle you’ll ever hear.  When we cruised on the Emerald Princess in 2014, we discovered by accident that she was on that ship but not in the dining room which we used.  But we went down there one morning for breakfast and surprised her.  She calls us Mama and Papa.  We’ve been in touch from time to time via Facebook and I contacted her recently to see if she was still on the Emerald.  She was and messaged me the other day to say she’d just been moved.  But here she was on breakfast duty up in Horizon.   She didn’t see us and I called her – the look on her face and the big scream she gave was priceless and then there was much hugging.  She’s going to try and get a little break one morning when we have breakfast so we can catch up properly.

After breakfast we headed ashore – there were buses to take us back through the maze of containers to the cruise terminal.  We’d considered doing the Hop on Hop off and went to get tickets.   It was pretty expensive at US$40 each but we were going to do it anyway but then they wouldn’t accept credit cards and I didn’t have enough cash on me so we ended up getting the free shuttle bus to downtown Buenos Aires and just had a wander round there checking out the people and the shops and just generally enjoying the ambience.  One of the things which constantly amazed us is the number of trees and huge park areas in the middle of the city.  It’s so lovely to see.  After wandering round for a couple of hours we caught the shuttle back to the cruise terminal and had a coffee in the café there so I could get some internet.  But since there were so many there with the same idea it was incredibly slow and I couldn’t get me pictures to load at all.  So we headed back on board and I thought the ships internet might be reasonably fast today since we were in port so I logged on there and was able to get the pics loaded and got the blog post published.   

We headed down to the International Café for a spot of lunch – Craig likes the little pies the have down there and I’m pretty partial to the little quiches they have there which along with a green salad makes for a tasty light lunch.   We’re now back in the cabin – watching an interesting documentary about South America and then shortly  after we’ve got the Muster drill before sailaway at around 6pm.

We duly attended the muster which seemed to take a while but probably provided more information than we’ve ever had before – hopeful none of it required!  We took our lifejackets back to the cabin and then headed for Crooners for an ale  before tea.  We got chatting to a few different people there and the time passed quickly until we had to go and get changed for dinner.

We did the usual share for dinner and were with 3 other American couples – all now retired – a high court judge, a lawyer, a high school principal, two nurses and a public relations officer so a very interesting bunch and we had great conversations.  I had delicious prawn and scallop cocktail, followed by delicious fish and then amazing key lime pie for dessert – one of our faves.  There was a show on but we’d have had to race from dinner without dessert – and you can guess why we didn’t.  So we had a leisurely finish to our meal along with one of the other couples and then went down to Crooners where once again we chatted to some great folks.  We’ve got an early start in the morning in Montevideo so we didn’t hang around too long and came up to bed.