March 25, 2019: Disembarkation Day

Eighty days later and we are forever changed, this journey and adventure around South America and Antartica was indeed a life changer. From the beautiful things we have seen to the incredible people we have met and with all this aboard the final Grand Voyage of the ms Prinsendam. We are left breathless with the grand beauty of the Antarctic and the amazing lives that are led by the Amazonian people as well as all points in-between. The apex of highlights was the rare opportunity to visit South Georgia Island. The beautiful sunny day we had there was also rare and to be able to walk amongst the Seal, Seal Lions, Elephant Seals, and Penguins was off the wow scale. We were very fortunate to be able to travel for this amount of time, given our past situations, so we feel doubly if not triply blessed. This posting is the first of two wrap ups, the second will be a posting of our favourite pictures. This may take a bit to get to, so stayed tuned, have to sort through a few things at this time - welcome home. 

The pics I am including in this post are from the ship and the many places we spent much of our time. We bid farewell to ms Prinsendam… Hope you enjoy…

March 24, 2019: At Sea

Packing day, ahhhhhh. Not my favourite time, so we delayed it as much as we could. Our day started with a towel zoo on the Lido deck - very nice job by the housekeeping crew. Then Tai Chi this morning then the Captain’s farewell toast - very well done and the crew video was just fantastic, nice job, Alice and Erin. By the end of it there was not a dry eye in the house, including the Captain. Then we had to have the special Sunday Brunch, yum. Okay then it was time to pack. Six bags later and we were ready, pretty much done by about 6pm, so I still had time for a steam, ahhh. 7:15 Adagio, 8pm dinner and our final goodbyes all around. 9:30 Variety show then back to the room for the final insertions into the bags - all out by 11:15. We thank our cabin stewards Harry and Farid for all their hard work in seeing our stateroom looking so good. Pretty good for us, we are usually panicking around the 12 midnight deadline - guess we are getting better as we cruise more, ha. Here are a few pics of the day, hope you enjoy…

Will prepare a final cruise wrap up soon, stayed tuned. We hope you enjoyed our Grand Voyage around South America over the past 80 days, we very much appreciated your comments on both FB and by email, so thank you for those. Will probably wrap this up in a couple segments, our travel home tomorrow and then on the entire cruise itself.