Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Day 1: Wednesday, December 4, 2019: Buenos Aires, Viking Jupiter, Tango Show and Dinner

We left the house in League City around 5:30 pm. It took over almost two hours to reach IAH. There we quickly checked our luggage and found the United Polaris Club where we met up with Stephen and Sarah.





We boarded our Boeing 777 and were ready to travel, taking off at 10:20 pm.


I put on my eye mask and went to sleep almost immediately. Stephen, Stephen and Sarah stayed up to partake in the evening meal.

I actually slept relatively well. I awoke about one hour prior to our arrival in Buenos Aires, about nine hours after our departure from IAH. We got off the plane and stood in line for about an hour getting through Immigration.


Once past Immigration, we picked up our checked luggage only to find that one of Sarah's bags had been left in Houston. Hopefully, it will be brought on the next flight tomorrow and delivered to the ship.

We arrived at the ship around 1:00 pm. The situation was very confused and the staff seemed very harried. We did get to our room. Trout and I are in  4121 and Stephen and Sarah are next door in 4123. I was under the impression that 4123 was essentially the 2nd bedroom for 4121. But that was not the case. It is a completely separate, and very small, room with no connecting doors. Our room is not huge, but it will be comfortable.





Our luggage had not arrived (and would not arrive for several more hours), so we toured the ship.

















Tonight we go ashore for a Tango show and dinner. It will be a late night, but we don't have anything schedule during the morning tomorrow.

Extremely noisy, extremely small and cramped. The food was borderline at best and it took far too long for the show to start. The show itself was great. By the time it started however (10:15 pm), I was ready to call it a night. No pictures were to be taken of the show, although that did not stop many people...the special ones among us. We did not get back to the boat until about 00:15 Thursday morning. A long day.