Feb 10 and 11, sea day and Montevideo, Uruguay

We had a great sea day with warm temperature and calm water, a nice change!  We are going to get all the cold weather clothes clean and pack them away for the rest of the cruise.  They had a formal night for the "Captain's Farewell"  party and the "Krew Kapers" show.  That was probably one of the best crew talent shows we have seen on Regent.  Near the end of the show they had a large number of the crew doing dance numbers that included quite a few Michael Jackson impersonations that were really very good. We had a nice dinner in Compass Rose, probably the last dinner with our favorite waitress, Kerti, who is leaving the ship in Buenos Aires.
We arrived in Montevideo at about 10 am and quickly were off the ship on a bus tour of the entire city.  We had an excellent tour guide that showed us many historical sights as well as some of the really nice areas of homes. 
After the tour we stopped for a late lunch  at the "Mercado Del Puerto", originally a train station it is now a large area of restaurants and shops right across from the cruise ship pier.  The restaurants all serve various barbequed meats that are cooked over coals.  The place was packed with cruise passengers from our ship and one other, the Prinsendam, plus lots of locals as it is Saturday.  Tom had a really good local beer and we split a steak and sausage plate, plenty of food for sure!
Tonight is the ship barbeque on the pool deck, we plan on just having salad, since we already had a least a one day quota of meat for lunch.

Crew doing "Thiller"

Our favorite waitress (she's standing on her toes!)

Life size bronze of a stage coach

BBQ for lunch!

Tomorrow we will be in Buenos Aires, the ship stays there for three nights and there will be a big turnover of passengers on the second day as we start the final leg of the cruise.  We spend the first night there and then fly to Isuazu Falls on the morning of the 13th and will spend the night in a hotel at the falls, returning to the ship on the 14th in Buenas Aires.  We have a return trip of one day in Montevideo on the 15th.