After our Rounding of Cape Horn everyone adjourned to the dining room for our "Final Supper." When dinner was over and the tables cleared a group of us, mostly crazy Aussies, but also a couple of Americans, Canadians and Russians got into a singing contest of national songs. We definitely got an interesting presentation of "Waltzing Matilda," the "National Anthem" (and other US songs) and the "Russian Anthem." Tom ended up doing the Cossack dance with one of the Russians while the Russian crew stood around and sang. He probably shortened the life of his one last remaining knee by several years. The crew finally chased us from the dining room and we moved onto the lounge to continue the cruise wind down. We headed to our cabin around midnight to finish packing for an early morneing debarking in Ushuaia. Others continued 'til about 3:00 PM. Saying good-bye to everyone the following morning was sad. We were leaving fellow adventurers who had become good friends. Tom got a hearty Russian good-bye (Hugs and kisses on both cheeks from both Valeri and Natalya). We stored our luggage for several hours and knocked around Ushuaia (Fin del Mondo-End of the World) one last time before heading for a mid afternood flight to Buenos Aires. Many of those on the Expedition with us were on the plane, so we had a final good-bye when we got to BA. We got to our beautiful/classic hotel (The Savoy) at 9:30, so had no chance to check out BA.
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