Taxi Stand
They scanned our bags, we got detected for metal and then we waited in line for our turn with the immigration man. The fellow in the booth took our photos, scanned our right thumbs, matched them up with the photos and thumb prints we did when we entered the country, and made sure we had our reciprocidad papers, then stamped our passports.
I wanted to ask him if I had
to do all this again if I wanted to get off the ship on my own on Sunday, but
he spoke no English. I gave him a smile and in my best Spanish told him Alaska,
mucho freo…
A short walk away we entered
the terminal. Princess was waiting for us. They gave us a health form to fill
out.
After a while our group was
called and we got to have our bags scanned again, and detected for metal again
They Don’t Want
You Taking Any Metal Away from Argentina
At the princess counter they took our luggage,
and gave us our cruise cards, and just before going out to board the bus that
would take us to the ship Princess took our passports, and gave us a small
yellow paper stub with a number on it.
They put all the passports
with the other end of the yellow paper in long trays and said it would be all
right, and they would give them back…Someday…What could go wrong with that
We are no longer free but prisoners
of Princess.
We got our group number
stickers this morning Purple 12 to ride on a bus out past where Juan Carlos
took us to the Harley shop, out to Tigre to ride river boats on the Rio De La
Plata.
The river is brown from silt,
there appears to be no wild life or even birds around, but our boat cruises
past houses with docks, where almost everyone sits and watches the boats go by…
On The Delta
Another bus ride back to our
prison ship and after lunch, some pool time, and the entering life jacket
drill, our home for the next 30 or so days pulled away from the Buenos Aires
dock and set sail across the Rio De La Plata for Montevideo…
Leaving Buenos Aires
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