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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