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Day 7 - Penguins Again!   We woke up at seven and got ready for more penguins! Woohoo! It was very Antarcticy outside today! Today was a day for allll the layers! Or so I thought. We ate our room service breakfast and headed down. We realized that they...

Day 6 - Two Landings   I was sleeping hard at 7:30 when my alarm went off today.  But it went off at 7:30 because we had two landings today!  Yay! Our butler brought our room service breakfast!  Here’s the order form: They started calling groups about 15 minutes...

Day 5 - First Penguins!   We slept great, and woke up around 8:30. I could see icebergs and land in the distance!   We were in the South Shetland Islands. Here we are on a map: I was staring out the window when a penguin jumped out of the...

Day 4 - Drake Lake   Drake Lake or Drake Shake?  That was the question on all of our minds.  Our bus guide the day before had told us she hoped we had Drake-Lakey, and not Drake-Shakey! While not perfectly calm, we were closer to Lakey than Shakey! I woke...

Day 3 - To the Ship!   We had a ridiculously early morning charter flight to Ushuaia, so we met the group downstairs in the lobby at 4:30 am. We took the bus to the airport and went through security as a group. We all had liquids...

Day 1 - On My Way   I had an afternoon flight out of Denver, meeting Mukta in Houston for a 10-hour flight to Buenos Aires! I bought a new camera bag for this trip that I've been eyeing.  I was very happy with it!  I do love...