Argentina to Uruguay to Argentina to Falklands .. .

Wow, where do I even begin? What an adventure this has been so far and I can't believe we have only been gone a week! Well the flight over was almost a complete dream, other then the seemingly short flight to Atlanta that ended up being delayed over an hour and then circled Atlanta for another 30 minutes . . . . but the flight to BA was a dream, we slept most of the way only to wake up with enough time to have an enjoyable airplane breakfast . . . and watch a movie! Buenos Aires was everything we expected it to be. We woke up Christina upon our arrival (even though it was almost noon) but in true fashion we were on a walking tour of the city within minutes. All the spanish has been flooding back to us and if we don't know the ever forgiving "no etiendo" comes in handy for a laugh everytime! Getting to the cruise ship was a bit of a laugh but thanks to our tiny Argentine friend we made it!! The cruise has been fantastic so far. I think there are camera's online if you go to Norwegian's sight, we are on the Sun and you can see what our port looks like everytime we are at one. Monday we were in Montevideo which I honestly didn't know what to expect but was pleasantly suprised. We did a city tour of it which felt like a whole country tour by the time we were done. They have beautiful white sand beaches there with all the lake frontn condo's you could want, he weather was absolutely gorgeous and even though all the President's from all the South American countries were there, it still felt safe and homey. We did the 2 suggested walking tours after and they had this awesome building right off the pier that was just food and was tons of barbeque's . . . but not North American kinds . . . they had these huge grills and then random animals and vegetables and you sat like a bar so you could pick what you wanted off the grill and ate. We just walked through but we saw lots of crew and tourists eating. Tuesday we were at sea and i gratefully layed in the sun. We had to be careful as the ozone layer here is extremely thin but since the air temperature everyday is dropping, the sun felt nice with the *colder* air. .. . Wednesday we were in Puerto Madryn which was really lovely. We had an all day excursion where they took us over to Valdes Island and we saw Sea Lions, Elephants Seas and Magellan Penguins. It was such a beautiful day and we took amazing photos. The drive was about 2.5 hours each way and the landscape is pretty barren as they don't get a ton of rain but in the 70's there were only about 8,000 people living in that city and now because of the aluminum plant there are 30,000 so everything was very new looking. They had white sand beaches and the homes had beautiful glass fronts. Thursday was a day at sea which I spent most of the day sleeping . . . catching up on all those lots hours before I got here! Today we were in the Falkland Islands and that was fantastic! I pictured them to be look like Newfoundland and I wasn't disappointed! We had this fantastic day trip where we were loaded into Land Rover's and then driven (4x4 style) over peety moss to what felt like the edge of the world where we saw the Rockhopper Penguins! They cracked me up, they had nests built and were sitting on their babies but they would come along and steel bits and pieces of others nests and they would squack and yell and bite the guy as he made a run with his steal. . . As their name suggests (rockhopper) they nest in among the rocks and the literally hop everywhere. IN short I took about 120 pictures of them and some video as it just cracked me up! We got stuck in some mud on the ride back but another kindly Land Rover helped us out. We travelled in a caravan in that event (in true Christina style she kept comparing it to Jurassic Park!) Tomorrow is a day at sea and my birthday so I am thinking the spa might be nice . . .