Feb 1st, 2020 Day 29 of 128

Happy February every one. Day 3 of our Antarctica experience.  I made an executive decision last night to set no alarms this morning so that everyone could sleep in and make up for a couple of days lost rest.  I am so glad we did.  By the time we awoke around 8:00am, the scenic Narration that was supposed to take place was cancelled due to inclement weather blocking where we were supposed to go.  Our next narration was scheduled for 11:00 so we took the opportunity to have a relaxing morning.  We ordered room service, did some tidying around the room and watch the beautiful Antarctica landscape go by.  Periodically we’d see something amazing and run outside into the 32 degree weather and take some photos and then run back inside to warm up.  Megan had a chance to do her crochet group today and Valerie had tutoring.  Tomorrow we wrap up another week of schoolwork and the girls are doing great keeping up with everything.  We stayed in the room and enjoyed the scenic narration from there and we were blessed to have most the amazing sights for today appear right outside our balcony here on the port side of the ship.  Our geographical points today were Errera Channel and Charolette Bay.   We also reached our most southerly point of our World Cruise 65 degrees latitude.  We were about 1800 miles shy of the geographic south pole.   At 2:00pm we all wandered up for some warm soup only to go back outside and freeze out booty’s off.  Cayucos Polar Bear dip has nothing on today’s penguin plunge.  About 25 brave souls, Valerie and Megan included, put on the their bathing suits and ventured to the pool outside on the back pool deck for a plunge.  It was 32 degrees outside and it actually started to snow while we were out there. Mom and I were bundled up and we froze. I’ll let the picture speak for them selves on that craziness.  We came back in quickly after and sent the girls for hot showers as mom and I went and acquired two decaf lattes for us sand two hot cocoas for our brave (crazy) girls. At 4:30 pm scenic narration began again.  We came into Charolette Bay and the abundance of whale watching ensued.  Humpback whales breeching, breathing right outside our cabin, diving…This is a popular spot for feeding and it did not disappoint.  As scenic commentary concluded, it really started to snow outside. I’ll lovingly remind you it is summer here.  But it is never really summer at all.  Sunset tonight is 10:12pm and sunrise is 4:28 tomorrow morning.  Scenic narration is set to begin at 7:00am tomorrow for our last day in Antarctica.  Enjoy all the amazing pictures we got today.  Tomorrow is our last day on our Antarctica adventure.  Love and hugs to you all, Debra