Hi all! Don’t have much time so this’ll be short. We made our way to Santiago and arrived at hostel run by a cool American guy. The selling point was that he had a washing machine that we could do clothes in for free AND a DVD player with over 700 movies. We didn’t spend all our time there, but it was good times. We did go out and explore Santiago and decided we like it much better than Buenos Aires in terms of big cities. It is really smoggy unfortunately, but the sites and architecture and fountains are just so beautiful. You can check out our Chile pictures to see what it was like.
Now we’re in Mendoza, Argentina. This city is really high up in the mountains and is near Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the western hemosphere topping off at just under 7000 meters high or 22,841 feet. We can’t wait to go see it. Mostly we wandered around the city seeing the sites. They have this gorgeous park that’s almost as big as the city itself where people jog, play soccer, row around a lake, and even walk through a large zoo. We just took the one hour tour since the place was so huge. Then we went and hung out with this cool guy we met named Ray (who just happens to have the same birthday as me 
and had all you could eat pizza for just 8 pesos (less than $3). Awesome find. We’re not quite sure where we go from here but it will be towards the east. Hope everything is well back home!
Cool photos, keep ‘em coming! I like those dogs sleeping in the park.
Comment by Lauren — March 17, 2006 @ 2:07 pm