After breakfast, we took a cab to the only major site
that we had not visited, the Opera House.
They had English tours at 11am, 1pm and 3pm so we got there at 10:30am
and the 11am tour was booked so we made reservations for the 1pm tour.
Then we walked about 15 minutes to the oldest café in Buenos
Aires and had pastries before taking a cab back to the hotel to pack. After packing we took another car to the
Opera House in time for the 1pm tour.
This opera house is huge, with seating and standing room
for over 3,000 people. It has 7 rows of
seating and has been totally restored having been built in 1909. We were told that the Opera House was rated
#1 for best acoustics for Opera and #3 for orchestra performances.
After the tour, we took a cab back to the hotel, picked
up our bags and headed for the ship.
When we got to the port we found out that all of the porters were
working for another cruise line as most of the Celebrity passengers had boarded
the day before, while we stayed in town.
We finally found a young girl representative who found a
cart and we started in with our suitcases with her pushing the big cart full cart. After
a short trek inside, we arrived at a Celebrity booth were the Guest Services
Manager and a couple of his assistants were there. He had one of the assistants take us through immigration
and then we came back for our luggage which the Manager took himself through
all of the security procedures and then to the shuttle bus to take us to the
ship.
At the ship, they had 4 room attendants who met us at the
shuttle bus who took our luggage right up to our room. So what started out as a terrible boarding
situation turned into a great one. From
the hotel to our room only took 1 hour had no line to stand in!
We went up to the top deck and had some pizza, checked
out our table for dinner and then came back to the room to unpack and take a
nap.
After our nap, we went to the 7pm show, which was a
musical and very good and then went to dinner.
Our table was set for 7 and only one couple showed up and
when we asked them where they were from they said, ElPaso, Illinois – now what
are the odds on that? They seem very nice and we had a good dinner
with them and good conversations.
Then it was onto the Casino to meet our host Dimi and
Casino Manager Palo. Also, one of our
favorite people, Carla, was a casino supervisor. So far, Carla was the only person in the casino
that we had known from before.
There was only one person playing blackjack and he quit
after ½ hour and Ed was down just a little and Barb was up at slots, so we were
up a very little for the night. But, at
least we were up and got in some playing time.
Tomorrow is Montevideo, Uruguay - night
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The Opera House |
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| The oldest café in town |
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| Ready to go out for the first evening |
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