Wow…we sure do update a lot. Hope you all can keep up. Anyways this might be the last post for a few days as tomorrow we have to wake up bright and early for a 7:30 bus (grumble) and head on to El Chalten. The internet is said to be slower than congress there so we may not be able to post.
Last night we went out with some friends to this restaurant/bar for a rather expensive dinner (for us anyway). A steak was about $24 peso ($8 dollars) and a bottle of wine was $27 ($9 dollars). Not the best food I`ve ever eaten but it wasn`t too bad. What made it worth it was the dinner show ($10 peso charge) to see this old guy play guitar and sing to us. His gaucho dressed friend played the drum and even danced for a good bit. This was a real treat as the whole room got into the music. A lot of people seemed to know the words to.
Today we went to see the Moreno Glacier. I prefered Glacier Grey as there were far less people and it was a lot more peaceful. Still you had to appreciate how beautiful this thing was. This impossible wall of ice stands about 165 feet high above the water and is about three times that beneath the surface. And it`s an active glacier that due to movement, wind, water, and heat of the summer chunks fall off it all the time while you sit there and watch. We watched several large crashes and the shocks roll like thunder. One chunk that cracked and fell literally had to be the size of five storey building and it sent rolling waves throughout the lake. Jordan and I tried to get some good footage with our cameras. The movie function works well but you can never tell when one of these things is going to fall. Half the time you don`t even know something`s happening until the ice blocks hit the water.
In other news more pictures have been put up for viewing if you hadn`t already discovered that. Check all over the place and see what we’ve seen (sort of). Very few pictures could capture what we’ve seen.
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We may have to wait a little while before more pictures will be put up. Tomorrow we will travel to see the gigantic Moreno Glacier and the next day it´s on to El Chaltan (where we`re told internet is really slow and there are no ATMs) and on to Los Antigous. Really bad spelling on all of those I’m sure. But there is one picture I`d really like you all to see. The first day of our trip Jordan and I hiked up to the base of the Torres del Pain, these large granite towers that rank of one of the most amazing things I`ve ever seen. We took plenty of pictures but none could do it justice. About half of the 120 odd pictures I took over the five days in the park could be used for panaramas. But we got some people to take a picture of us while we were up there.
Cool, eh?
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I think I forgot to mention it in my last entry but we are now in El Calafate. We arrived here on bus 4 hours ago. We had to wake up at 6 AM to catch the bus. Waking up at ungodly hours to catch busses is still something I need to get used to. I really, really, wanted to stay in my nice comfortable BED this morning. Anyways, we are going the chill here for a few days and check out the Perito Moreno Glaciar. We are still traveling with Mounya…she has been a great travel partner! Yesterday, she bought us this huge dinner before we watched the game…it was really good…pizza of course! It is too bad about the Seahawks…I think that they just wanted to wait one more year so they could win when Adam and I are back : ) My camera is completely full of amazing pictures but no computer will recognize it! So, if your wondering why there are no pictures of Adam in any of the pictures, it is because they are all on my camera! We would love to post more pictures but the connections down here are so slow that it takes forever. Apparently this place does not recognize any of our cameras so no new pictures yet sadly. We have found it humerous that there have been 82 views on the Chile album that only contains a flag! We will tell you when we are able to post new pictures…the pictures of Torres Del Paine are amazing! Anyway…love to all!
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