Lovely sea day today (January 19). Great weather and just enough motion to know you’re on a ship. Had a great massage from a young lady who did her training at Virginia School of Massage in Charlottesville, so we spent some time reminiscing about Bodo’s. Spent much of the rest of the day out on various decks reading. Tonight was a formal night and the ship’s officer who was a guest at our table was the Environmental Officer...a very nice man with interesting stories to swap for some of ours.

And on January 20, here are Gil, me, and Virginia in Arica, Chile. A real "fancy meeting you here" shot! They had just returned to their ship, ms Discovery, from a trip to Macchu Pichu and came over to the Prinsendam to visit. They loved Macchu Pichu, are having a great time on their cruise and said to say "hi" to all and sundry back home. (For those who don’t know, Virginia and I have lunch with a bunch of friends every Friday, and their itinerary and mine just happened to mesh here.) We visited for about an hour on the dock swapping trip stories. Got some great photos of Discovery as she sailed past us later. I was waving madly, and presume that Virginia and Gil were also. Then to cap the afternoon, I had my cruise-traditional Myers and Coke ("Hi" to Jeff, Mark, and Mary.).