Sea Day — Final Soirée for the Machu Picchu Group?

We are at sea today and having a good time relaxing and enjoying ourselves…it’s the weekend, there are no ports to explore, the weather is finally good (a bit too warm…but after Antarctica we are not complaining!).  We had a get together for the Machu Picchu group today — it will be the last one for those passengers getting off in Rio de Janerio (we arrive into Rio on Monday).

Lisa, the assistant cruise director here on the Mariner, has worked hard to collect the stories from us and pictures and videos and such.  They had done a presentation of all of this for the whole ship a week or so after we were back on after our adventure…and now she has burned the memories onto a DVD and given each of us a copy.

She also handed out hard copies of the stories people told and some songs and poems people wrote about the experience.  My favorite poem is by our new friend Nick…we had no idea Nick was such a talented guy!  See his poem below.

Nick and Sherrie enjoying the MP Get Together on the Mariner.

Here is Nick’s poem!

We started the day riding the train
Next to the river all swollen with rain

Little did we know what was in store
We were veteran travelers down to our core

We enjoyed our day, the time really flew
After all — this was Machu Picchu!

Buy alas some troubles were about to occur
The next few days would be difficult — that was for sure

From train station to hotel and line after line
The only thing that was consistent — we always had wine

As the days went on we had new troubles to bear
The biggest one being — no clean underwear

But our spiritis stayed amazingly good
We knew our guide & Regent were doing all they could

Finally the choppers took us away
Even if the US officials wanted some of us to stay!

On to Cusco & Lima we flew
It proved to be hard to get out of Peru

But Gari prevailed using his wit & his charm
It helped he had a credit card hooked to his arm

When we drove up to the ship the welcome was great
Everyone wanted to know the details of our fate

But the best thing we’ll remember when all of this ends
Is how we made so many new friends

Great job Nick!!

We had dinner tonight in the Signatures restaurant — which is the Cordon Bleu reservations-only french restaurant on the ship.  We hadn’t eaten here in a while and we had a great dinner!  Us and some fellow passengers have been talking to John, our head sommelier, about a special wine dinner and he informed us tonight that it will take place tomorrow evening!  We are very excited about this — he is pairing 5 different reserve wines with a 5 course meal.  Regent provides complimentary wine but the reserve wines are better but you have to pay for them…we’ve bought wine many of the nights.   More details on this tomorrow.

MP Get Together Picture Gallery: http://travelwithdm.smugmug.com/Travel/South-America/Machu-Picchu-Reunion-Feb-20/25178203_K6QnVb#!i=2065149768&k=sWjbFBd

PS: Turns out that this wasn’t the last MP get together.  They had one more to show Marcia and Douglas’ great MP video.  She gave me a copy previously.  They had 70 people show up!  They also gave us all a copy of the ship’s MP video (that had a lot of my pictures and few video clips and included a nice segment on this on the ship produced 65 day video they gave to all the Circle South America cruisers.

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