We had been told that we would be approaching "The Horn" at about 7 am this morning, so to either be on deck or turn on our stateroom TVs to the ship's information channel then. The "Renaissance Man", Colonel Reid, was giving a talk on the ship's information channel regarding the history of sailing around the Horn. He was an interesting guy who was giving lectures throughout the cruise on the area, as he is an expert on South America in general, and on the southern half of it specifically. We bought his book too, which was specifically about exploring South America by cruise ship.
Anyway, it was super super cold that morning and this is what it looked like off our balcony. We stayed under the covers, but opened up the balcony door so we could see what was going on.
Here's what we saw at about 7 that morning - the sun doesn't come up until around 8 or 8:30 around there:
Then later on:
Later that day, it was still way too cold to do anything outside (I think it was about 30 degrees F) so I spent a good amount of the day sitting on my couch next to the balcony, knitting away on Forecast:
We had our second formal night that evening as well and it was a lot of fun. Here's some of the pictures:
Here we are at dinner with Martinho and Ned, our waiter and assistant waiter:
When we got back to our room after dinner, we saw that we had received these certificates for sailing through the Strait of Magellan and around Cape Horn:
Nice idea, even though the verbiage doesn't make a whole lot of sense - we got the idea!
That dress is really cute! It looks very pretty on you!
Posted by: Jenni | March 31, 2008 at 02:49 PM
Robin, that dress looks gorgeous on you!!!!!!!! I love that color on you!
Posted by: adrienne | March 31, 2008 at 03:17 PM
Very cool! Love your dress!
Posted by: Michelle | March 31, 2008 at 03:26 PM
Ooh you look so comfy on the balcony with your knitting!
And you never changed your last name??
I agree! The color of your dress is great and looks good on you!
Posted by: Stacey_CrimsonPurl | March 31, 2008 at 05:55 PM
That dress is absolutely gorgeous on you. I like the way it brings out the highlights in your hair. You did look very cozy on the couch. I might do that on our day at see too.
Posted by: Andrea | March 31, 2008 at 07:44 PM
You guys are such a cute couple. Love the dress.
Posted by: Sharon | March 31, 2008 at 08:55 PM
Spending the day on the couch knitting as the oceans rolls by sounds lovely. You two look wonderful! Pretty dress.
Posted by: tiennie | April 01, 2008 at 12:55 AM
You guys look awesome - James Bondish. COOL!
Posted by: lisa | April 01, 2008 at 07:43 AM
That’s funny that they sailed around the Horn so early. On my cruise we arrived around 1pm, and the weather was really nice. And the ship’s crew set up a stand on deck with T-shirts. They must have made a fortune, people couldn’t get enough. What a pretty formal night picture. You outfit is gorgeous!
Posted by: Veronique | April 01, 2008 at 08:33 AM
How cool that you could sit and knit and look at the window at that! I love that dress!
Posted by: Bobbi | April 01, 2008 at 08:40 AM
So exciting to sail around the horn! Was it amazing, or sort of anticlimactic? Does it make you want to read a book about the first explorers to do that?
You both look terrific for formal night. That dress is so pretty on you!
Posted by: Debby | April 01, 2008 at 10:37 AM
This dress looks stunning on you!
Posted by: Kasia | April 04, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Gorgeous dress! I had never considered South America for a cruise; may have to rethink it.
Posted by: Judy G. | April 07, 2008 at 10:50 AM
I love the color of that dress on you! And of course the photos of the two of you are fantastic ;) What a cool thing to be able to say that you went around Cape Horn!
Posted by: knittymuggins | April 07, 2008 at 11:07 AM