trying the champagne
pretending like we know what he's saying
on the patio of the 3rd winery which was also on a golf course
then we headed to our hotel which was really just a bunch of 2 story condos. everyones front doors faced eachothers..it was beaaautiful! pretty much everyone took siestas once we got back to the hotel...then we walked down to the city and went to dinner. it was hysterical walking into a restaurant and asked for a table for 20...apparently only americans do that. i couldnt decide what i wanted so of course i asked the waiter what his favorite was...he told me but i didnt understand what he said sooooo i just said ok bring me that! haha....not realizing that of course it was the most expensive thing on the menu. i'm a dumb american. ha but it was some chicken thing that was really good!
the beatiful view!
carlos!!! our precious taxi driver that loved us
then on sunday, we checked out of the hotel at 10 and drove to our next hotel. It was only like an hour away but we drove through this canyon so it took us about 3 hours...everyone else hated it, but secretly i enjoyed the ride haha.. the canyon was gorgeous!!! i seriously felt like i was in greece. then we finally arrived at the hotel which i swear was straight out of a horror movie. it was in the middle of nowhere in the mountains and we were literally the only people staying in the hotel. not a single other guest....sketchy? the rooms had 3 sets of bunkbeds (really wish i had gotten a picture) and the entire hotel was verrryy dimly lit. we had dinner there which was served by a tiny little boy that didnt speak english and never made eye contact or even responded when we talked to him. he just walked back and forth from the table to the kitchen with his eyes on the ground. eeeeeeeeeeeeerrrryyyyy!!! then we watched 'the sweetest thing' dubbed in spanish in the lobby and we pretty much hung out in the lobby the whole night. we became pretty good friends with the guy at the front desk.
then the next morning, we checked out of that hotel at 10 and headed back to mendoza!
monday was my mom's birthday and so all of the extended family came over that night...including little juanito!! i love that little boy. then i called it an early night! today after school we came home for lunch and i ate 2 burgers and they were sooo goood!! we had to go back up to the school at 5:30 to talk to some exchange students about baylor...so brett's mom said she would take us if we didnt mind running by a winery cause she had to give something to one of her friend's there. aaaaand we ended up getting a personal tour for the 3 of us. none of us know spanish so it was really interesting haha...she thought that brett understood spanish and me and rue didnt so we threw brett to the front and he talked with her the whole time while rue and i followed behind hahaha it was a pretty funny tour though. rue and i had the crazies all day. i think we've had our share of winerys...except the whole program is going to another one on friday haha. all 4 of them have been in spanish though soooo still not exactly sure how wine is made. then brett's mom took us to the bus stop and we rode the bus up to school. joey, i found a picture of you in the office of the school!
theeen after the meeting, we rode the bus home. i tried to ride the entire hour bus ride home without ever holding on....which is literally impossible. i surfed for a good 10 minutes before i almost bit it pretty bad haha the buses are craaaazyyy here. brett was really embarassed by me hahaha and eventually made me grab on. he said i could do it when there werent that many people on the bus...rue and i were cracking up though.
i just ate dinner which included 3 sandwiches which were sooo yummmy and a banana milkshake. 2 burgers for lunch and 3 sandwiches for dinner.....i have got to chill on the eating.
rue and brett are about to come over so we can finish our homework for tomorrow and then hopefully i'll be going to bed early tonight!!
till next time...
CHAU CHAU!
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