11/23/14 - On my last post I got the dates wrong so now this info hopefully is more correct.  We boarded the ship around 4:00pm on 11/8.  We had our first dinner and then an orientation regarding what things to expect.  We would be sailing the Drake passage for the next two days.  The passage is rather rough sailing and soon a lot of passengers started getting sick.  For me it really was not too bad.  So actually instead of our first landing on 11/9 our first landing was on 11/10.

On 11/11, 11/12 we would sail around a lot of island and make two landings a day.  Most of the time, we would see lots and lots of penguins.  One day we saw two weddell seals and even saw a baby seal. It took me about 1/2 hour each time to get all of myself dressed for the landings!!

On 11/13, we did two landings and then they decided it would be the night of our camping on the ice!!  We were scheduled to camp in tents or a type of out door bag and the wind was calm so off we went about 9:45pm and set sail in a zodiac to land.  We were scheduled to stay there until 6:00am and then they would come after us.  But about two hours into our night the wind kicked up and we had terrible wind.  I thought for sure our tent was going to blow away but it didn't.  Because of blowing snow, our team leader got us up and going at 4:30am instead.  I was never so glad to be back on the ship in my whole life but I did survived!!

On 11/14/14 - we finally landed on the actually continent of Antarctic and most of the passengers were so excited because it was their 7th continent!!  They took a picture of Deborah and I holding an Antarctica flag but for some reason my camera was in video mode so I am unable to attach it.