Weather: 86º, Partly Cloudy
The morning wasn't quite as rushed as a normal port day. The ship didn't dock at Montevideo until 9 am which gave us time to get up without an alarm and eat breakfast. (Reading back through my blog posts has made me realize just how much I hate alarms now that I am retired!)
Once the ship pulled up to the dock we switched our phones off of airplane mode to check our emails and texts. My son was just starting his day back in Minnesota and commented that our 4-year old grandson was having fun following the videos we were sending on the Marco Polo app. He has a large world map on the wall of his bedroom where he was following our route. An amazing discovery (to a 4-year old) was that the Falkland Islands were further away from Minneapolis than Sioux Falls, South Dakota where his other grandparents live. I know to him the drive to Sioux Falls seems like forever so it would be hard to comprehend going to the opposite end of the world!
We could look out our window and see the gangplank and when people started disembarking we left our cabins. Having a cabin right by the forward elevators/stairs is so convenient at ports. Today the gangplank was on Deck A directly below our window.
There is a painted walkway leading from the ship to outside the port area which we knew from the port talk a couple of days ago. We followed the path and once outside the port gates, we saw the double decker Hop-On-Hop-Off (HOHO) bus waiting. We bought all day passes using a credit card for about $22/person. As soon as the bus started loading, we climbed to the upper, open air level. The port was the beginning of the route so we had our choice of seats. Bob and I grabbed seats on opposite sides of the aisle so we had cameras pointed in both directions during the tour.
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| Here you can see the green path leading to the entrance of the port. |
