On our Way to Ushuaia - Heading to the Deep South!

Buenos Aires International Airport at 5 AM on Halloween

Tuesday, October 31 - Buenos Aires to Ushuaia

Happy Halloween!  It’s cold at home - snowing in both Waunakee and Bete Gris.  The local weather we're heading into seems like it will be very similar.  We are finally on our way to the southern tip of the American continents.  We were told to expect a wakeup call at 3:30 AM to allow for a bus departure to the airport at 4:45.

Michael was up at 3 AM, even before the wakeup call.  We got dressed and packed our carryons for today’s flight, and headed down to breakfast at 4 AM.  It was too early for me to eat, so I had a cup of tea and a mini croissant.  We picked up our boarding passes for our charter flight to Ushuaia and found that we’d been assigned to seats 18E & F.  We had a funny checkout experience this morning.  We received a bill last night for $3, as we had exceeded our $50 meal credit and we owed money for the pumpkin soup!!

We waited in line for a while outside the hotel to board bus number three (of four) to the Buenos Aires International Airport (EZE). We arrived around 5:30 and proceeded to stand in long lines for check in and security clearance.  By 6:15 we were in the gate area and needed to wait until 7:45 for our departure.  We boarded by groups (Group 2) on a bus to drive to our Aerolineas plane to depart for Ushuaia.  Michael and I lucked out that there was no one assigned to seat 8D, so we have a free middle seat for this 3 plus hour flight.  Finally took off at 8 AM.