Puerto Madryn

Day three of the cruise and we are ported in Puerto Madryn, a beach town in central Argentina. It's funny because the culture of the town seems like any beach town in California, like there is some global way to live next to a beach. We've done some basic exploring and saw some of kind of ocean life museum, only to find out since Argentina has done almost no sea research, nearly all photos and info came from Monterey Bay in CA! What a rip off!

Yesterday was our first day at Sea. Luke and I decided to get up early and try a Yoga class, which was pretty cool so we signed up for all of them. Then we had an awesome breakfast, something we haven't really had since we left. We decided to spend the afternooon by the pool, get some tanning done, read, and just check out the scene. We were kind of idiots. We got to the pool around 11 after putting on some SPF 30 sunscreen. Either because we are careless or cocky or both, we never reloaded so four hours later we got back and felt a little burned. Well, we definitely burned. Not terrible burns, but Luke is worse then I am and felt a little sick last night. Just after he gets over feeling some stomach sickness from BsAs, he gets heat stroke. Idiot. Oh well, we'll be fine tomorrow and 100% the next day, which are both at sea anyway.

After this, we went to a beer tasting at one of the bars which had a team competition of trivia. Luke and I met some woman and this guy Luciano, another Brazilian with like 16 family members, so we was pretty excited to be at the bar. We completely emasculated the other teams, doubling the second best team's points, but the winners apparently dont get any diffrent prizes than the losers, which was a 33 oz beer mug that we can use all over the ship. We went upstairs to another place for food, and we bumped into Jamie from our hostel in Palermo! When we met her in Buenos Aires, she knew was going on a cruise with her family but couldn't remember which ship. For the first two days, we never saw her so I assumed she had gotten on a different boat, but turns out were on the same one. This is great, because with a female as part of our gang we don't appear as just a gay couple. Anyway, we had dinner with her mom and her mom's friend, then afterwards got some drinks and met three Australians on a family trip who are roughly our age that were pretty cool. So hopefully the social life will pick up.

Luke and I also discovered that on our ship there is a more extreme, Eastern-European version of us. These guys are way more muscular, way more hairy, have more skimpy speedos, and just like us its hard to tell if they are brothers, friends or lovers. These guys are crazy looking. If they are lovers, I really feel bad for whoever is sharing a wall with them.

This post is kinda weak but honestly not as much has happened. Our next stop is three days from now in Stanley, Falkland Islands. We'll try to update then. Adios.