Mendoza, Argentina

Happy to report the sun is shining on this part of the border too. Mendoza is a town of maybe 800 000 people, right smack in the middle of Argentinian wine country.

Yesterday we woke up in a dorm room with 12 other people. The night had been spent squeezed together on the top bunk because the place was overbooked. Since we had come in at 10 pm the night before there wasn't really any other options than just to tough it out, and we thought that it maybe wouldn't be so bad. But in the room were also 5 Canadian guys on a party tour, they snored and puked all night and and when I woke up I was just like "I'm too old for this, we have to move" and Dylan was not hard to convince. Now we're staying at a small place with very little water pressure, toilets that sound like rocket ships taking off when you flush them and beds that make you feel like you're sleeping on a family pack of cotton balls. But it's cheap, clean and quiet.

After moving yesterday, we went wine tasting by bike out in the country side. It was really great. We went to five different wineries, a museum and a small place that made chocolates and liquores. We had lunch (wine, cheese, home made bread and caramelized onions and tomatoes) on a patio overlooking endless fields of grapes. And at the last place, we ran into a group of Swedish people, finally! We ended up talking to them untill the place closed and then later last night we met up with them for dinner. Dylan finally got to try the famous Argentinian steaks, and he was not disappointed.

Today we're checking out the rest of the city. Tomorrow there's a big market we're going to and then we might head out of here tomorrow night. Night busses....hate them, but oh well.