Shiver me timbers....

Thats right. We got onto the boat!

We went to the office at the designated time to see if someone would cancel and we could get a room. This is a pricey trip so it is unlikely anyone would cancel. Nevertheless we were there. We had all of our eggs in one basket as we gave up the day to wait for the opportunity to go on this trip.

We arrived at 5pm and had to wait until 6pm to make sure the final 3 rooms of passengers checked in, if not, one was ours. With Rob giving every single person the detah stare as they walked in and other passengers offering to nobble would be passengers for us, we crossed off the first room at 5:15. Two more to go.

At 5:45 the second room went. Shit!

6pm, no sign of the third room, woohoo!! At 6:01pm they arrived. Shit! So now we were stuffed. Full boat and no accomodation and no trip to torres del paine, all was not good and I went to collect our luggage. As I was leaving Rob was stopped by our booking lady and said to hold on as there may be some hope........ may be.....

The boat sailed at 7pm so we were scraping it still. At 6:26pm we got the nod, they had a spare ro9om they keep on every boat ¨just in case¨and they would sell it to us. YEEHAH! So we headed down to the pier and made it for the last bus to the boat. Last ones to arrive on the bus meant first onto the boat.

We were on our way to see some of the most amazing glacier in the world and to also go down and hopefully if the weather was helping out to land on Cape Horn, the end of the World and the place of myths and legends and a place revered, respected and utterly feared by marines the World over.

We knew it would be cold, and windy and rough and the weather could make or break our trip. we didn´t care, we were on our way. We rang a few of you to let you know we were off then we sailed for the south, the glaciers, the horn, and the adventure of a lifetime.