Puerto Montt, Chile - December 23rd, 2008

Hey - maybe I can just add one day to my blog per day! What a plan - let's see if it works.

The good news is that when we woke up on Tuesday morning we saw our cruise ship out in the harbor - now all we had to do was get on it!

Our port agent from the cruise line had 'made arrangements' to get us from the airport to our hotel and then from the hotel to the cruise terminal - and it only cost us a mere $105. What a ripoff. Live and learn - anyway - when we got to the terminal there was one other family from Minneapolis that had missed the boat and were getting on with us.

Unfortunately we didn't get checked in and through the all important breakfast buffet in time to go on our shore excurison so we spent the day organizing our five suitcases (yes, Kayla and I each brought one and Pat brought 3 - he can never decide which clothes to wear - let see, brown? or brown?) into our very small cabin. This however, did leave time to go back into town and walk up and down the street (where Kayla was a huge hit - seems like they hadn't seen tall, slender, beautiful young ladies in these ports very often) and we found time to hit the craft market.

Later that night we put up a Christmas tree - yes, we packed a Christmas tree, ornaments and lights in one of those suitcases and when it came time to go to bed, we found out that Kayla doesn't really fit on a small hideabed - I think her little frame was about one foot longer than the bed frame!