Finally, another blog!

Jenn: Blue

Jeremy: Green

Wednesday morning, at the wee hour of 10 AM, we were awoken by a crazy, loud Dutch guy barging into the room. This was the beginning of two great days with Roderick, our new friend from Amsterdam. After breakfast we decided to trek our way across the city to the neglected zoo located on the mountain (why a mountain... I will never know. But it had amazing views) After four straight hours of walking and dodging traffic we arrived at the zoo where we saw a polar bear (I would not want to mess with one of these beasts), white tigers, a jaguar, llamas and many more crazy animals sadly trapped inside of cages. What a fantastic, but exhausting day, so we hopped onto the metro and may way back to the hostel for a siesta. At 8pm we woke up and went out for dinner (this is quite a reasonable hour for dinner, you would very rarely go any earlier) at Vacas Gordas. This was by far my favourite meal so far: a steak so large that Jeremy and I had to share one, arroz, beer and a splash of coke with my rum.

Roderick & Jeremy at the zoo!

Our friend el tigre, he said ¨hola¨ in growl form

Of course on a wednesday night we had to check out the night life, which was incredible. Not much is open in the morning, it picks up a little after about 1 and then come 8 everyone is out, all of the restaurants are open and dinner is just getting started. You don´t go out to the bar until about 1 am, not our usual 11pm, and you stay out until 5am (no wonder nothing´s open in the morning.)

After a long, drawn out goodbye with Roderick, including eating lunch on the ground at the bus station, we set off on an 8 hour bus ride through the Andes to Argentina. And just let me say .... the Andes are the most beautiful mountains I´ve ever seen in my life; so grand and proud standing.

We arrived in Mendoza around 10pm and ended up following a huge group of students to the closest hostel (no having to check the map for us!) Jennifer ended up in a dorm room with three giggly, loud, abnoxious girls and I had only a quiet guy who was already sleeping. After a meal of soggy fries we decided to call it a night in hopes of a better tomorrow. Early the next morning, we packed up our things and went in search of a new hostel. This time we found an old mansion turned into a hostel called Hostel Independencia. With this as our new home base we´ve spent the last couple days exploring the city, drinking mate and meeting fellow travellers.

Also, we don´t have spell check because this website is in Spanish, and we´re too lazy to double check it so this is raw blogging at it´s finest. And we´ll put up pictures next time .... the internet is extremely slow here....


CHEERS!


Jenn & Jeremy