Day 14 Valpriaso, Chile

As, I'm sure you all know, we've been having trouble logging on to our blog from both the Internet Cafe's in town and the ship's internet.
Here's a short catch-up.
In Costa Rica we went zip-linning. Rosie didn't sleep practically the whole night worring about what kind of experience was this "zip-linning". We have photos of the sheer terror on her face during the first zip-line, and the absolute fun of the experience at the end of the 7-line zip.
We all toasted in the room that night for her job well done. As far as the total experience from the rest of the more experienced zippers it was about a scale of 5. The best so far was Durango, Colorado, but we'll keep trying. Next may be Whistler, Canada. Anyone want to join us????

OK, now back on shipboard. The next big happening was Shirley winning $500 on the 21-Tournament. Both Shirley & Leila qualified for the finals and we agreed to split the winnings no matter who won. This consists of 7 hands, and the one who has the most chips after 7 hands wins. Now picture this: Last hand; Shirley, 2,000 chips; Tim, $2,000 chips; Mike, 800 chips and Leila $500 chips. Tim bets his 2K, Shirley her 2K, Mike bets 700 chips and keeps only 1 chip. Leila bets $100 chip and keeps 400. Now comes the excitement, Tim busts his $2K, Shirley wins $2K to a total $4K, Mike busts, Leila doubles her $100 to $200. Shirley was the big winner, and Leila came in 2nd. Since then, we've entered three other tournamens and have won 3 hats, & 4-Tshirts but no more first place -- yet! Shawn came in 2nd in the finals of the slot tournament.

In Peru we tried the Blog, but the keyboard was in Spanish and the @ sign was Alt - 64. That was just the beginning of our interpretation problems. The cost was $1 / hour, but no matter how many dollars we spent it just wasn't going to happen.

Today we spent touring Valpriaso, Chile and are back on board alongside the City Port. The internet is very good because the ship is busy accepting new passengers and old passengers beginning their trip home.

We think about our dog walkers and our friends in BMK.
We haven't found much culture, but did find some good Chilean red wine and beer, and yesterday Shirley replenished the Sweet Vermouth. Still have cherries, but they are now on rations.