Monday, November 9, 2009

Aeropuerto de Ezeiza

So we are here, can't believe its already been two weeks since we left North Carolina. Time has literally flown by. We are preparing ourselves for a looooong flight. From here to Mexico its about 10 hours, then a 5 hour layover in D.F. and then another long flight I think 7 hours? Not sure. Anyhoo to catch ya'll up to speed on what we have been doing. On Thursday we rented a car and drove to Alta Gracia. Its a cute small town about 30 km from Cordoba. We stayed at a super nice B&B called 279. Here's a pic of the courtyard

Its a small inn only two rooms and we were the only guests. She said we were the first couple from the U.S. We felt special :) We met up with Mike's friends Lucas and Paula and their two kids. Paula was super sweet we hit it off. She's my argentine chica. Here's all of us in service Saturday in the campo (where the rich ppl live, felt like I was preaching in English)

On Friday we went to Villa General Belgrano. Its a small german town about 55 km from Alta Gracia. You have to take a windy mountain road to get there. Some lovely views along the way. We got there and had some beer from the area. It was very yummy. We had it with sandwich de miga (or as i call it sandwich hormiga heehee)

When we got back from Villa General Belgrano we went to the Estancia Jesuitica in Alta Gracia, it was one block from our B&B. Its the largest in the area. It was quite impressive and they had lots of neat setups in the rooms.

Saturday like I mentioned was service and then we went to the meeting. I commented, go me! Afterwards we went to Lucas' parents house for pizza and sobremesa (talking after you eat at the table). Here's a shot of everyone who was there

Sunday we went back to Cordoba, turned in our rental car and had an asado mixta at Mike's tia's house. Here's tio lorenzo cooking and having a good time heehee (sorry i caught him with his eyes closed)

That evening we went to the feria artesenal in downtown Cordoba, which was basically a huge fleamarket. It was awesome, wish we had more money to buy all that stuff. So that's pretty much it. Our flight is boarding now so Ciao!

4 comments:

Dolores said...

Hi Vanessa to me time did not fly fast.It felt like for ever to me that you and Mike were gone.

I like the pictures of the friends and family. You all look so happy. The scenery is pretty.

I know leela is going to be happy to see you and pm the(cat) too.

And ME TOO!! and DAD TOO!!

eddie said...

nice pictures! argentina looks nice. i was reading about argentina on my looong break at work. sounded cool.

i have a serious itch for some international travels. soo many of the bros are doing int'l travel.

can't wait to view your album to get a better taste of your trip.

Dolores said...

Got you text at 8:00 am. Back n Mexico. Ok I'll be waiting for your call. Can't wait to see you and Mike.

Unknown said...

Ew his uncle is making some "morcilla" there I see. I hope you guys didn't eat that. It's sausage filled with blood. Guess he's not a jw.

Wow! It's been how long?

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