January 28 and 29

At dock in Puerto Montt

Water wheel at colonial museum

Beautiful hydrangeas everywhere

Concet hall on the lake at Frutillar

Lots of colorful small boats

January 28, we had our first really rough seas today, big swell but not much wind.  This continued through the night, not bad for sleeping once you get in bed but our tv was swinging back and forth, banging into the cabinet and the shower doors in the bathroom were sliding back and forth.
January 29.  This moring we awoke to rain, really the first of the trip.  Luckily we were able to dock at the pier in Puerto Montt as there were three other cruise ships in the port and the other three were having to use tenders to get their passengers ashore.  We had a bus tour to the resort towns of Puerto Varas and Frutillar.  Both are on the second largest lake in Chile and were founded by German immigrants.  They were very pretty little towns with many restaurants and shops.  We toured a recreated German colonial town that is a museum, very nice.  We also had a German "kuchen" (cake) snack in a nice shop that also sold local handicrafts.  Noel bought a pendant that had Lapis Lazuli stone in it.  Most of the world's supply of this bright blue stone comes from chile. 
Tonight we will be attending a special dinner and show that is just for the "full cruise" passengers, should be a nice event.