Starting to travel

January has been somewhat of a busy month for me between visitors and traveling, and I am about to head off again to get to know the south of Argentina. I had a great couple of weeks with Lindsay and Josh and Jess and Carol, and got to do all the tourist-y things that you don't end up doing when you are living in a place instead of visiting it. We went to the Cemetery of Recoleta, which has the tomb of Evita Peron and other famous people (along with a lot of cats and angel statues), the Museo de Bellas Artes, the Bosques de Palermo, which have paddleboats and a huge rose garden, and of course, to a tango show!

After everyone left, I went to visit a friend in San Pedro, about 3 hours from Buenos Aires, for 5 days, and then came back home and immediately got sick. So I've spent the last week and a half at home drinking tea with honey and taking antibiotics, and now that I've sufficiently recovered, I'm off to see the south of Argentina! I'm leaving tomorrow to visit a friend in Bariloche, a tourist-y ski resort town in the Lake District of Patagonia famous for its gorgeous scenery and chocolate en rama. I will be there for about a week and then I hope to be able to get a bus ticket down to El Calafate, a city in the province of Santa Cruz which serves as the gateway to the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. If I make it all the way down to the glaciers, I'll be sure to post pictures!!

In the meantime, here are some from the end of Jess and Lindsay's visit: