Bye Bye Barry Barry Lochi!!

So we have been here 9 days and once again, have grown very attached to the beautiful town of Barilcohe Argentina. Much like a ski town, Bariloche sits on a gorgeous lake and is surrounded by majestic mountains which in winter have amazing ski slopes for snow bunny fun. We have done a one week spanish course which was good for us to not only learn the language but to have some structure in our day. I have learnt a little more but still have a long way to go! We also met a great group of people, especially Amy and our Irish roomies, Oien and Jim, our brothers and best mates in Bariloche. I have also had a great time hanging out with the elusive and overly affectionate Cameron who has been travelling for 6 years!! So it can be done!

Yesterday we took the road trip from hell. Jodie and I with our roomies hired a car and set off for the Siete Lago trip / the Seven Lakes route. After a harrowing drive through the city while Jim adjusted to the left hand side drive, we set off out of town for the 4 hour scenic route. Even with the map we managed to get ridiculously lost, avoiding ALL seven lakes and found ourselves in San Marten which we were told was easily a nine hour round trip. San Marten was gorgeous though and we captured some beautiful pictures of sunset. We then took the wrong road back to Bariloche and the four of us sat in dead silence as Jim drove for 2 hours on a dirt road that wound down into the depths of dense forrest with NOTHING and NOONE around us. I could just see the headlines FOUR TOURISTS FOUND FROZEN IN HIRE CAR. Nevertheless, we eventually made it back to Bariloche at 10pm and all our mates were waiting for us with beers and pizza! Woohoo! Never been so excited in my life. We then told everyone what happened and laughed our heads off at the retardedness of what we had done. Ha, all in a day in the life of a backpacker I guess...

So tonight is our last night here and we are going out for a delicious dinner to celebrate. Once again, we face the sadness of saying goodbye to our new friends as we go our separate ways on our journeys. Its hard but a small price to pay for having found such great people who in time you will meet again.

Tomorrow night we fly to Buenos Aires and I am so pumped for it. We have heard that stories though that they eat dinner at midnight and dont go out til 2 or 3am. How are two old nanas from Sydney going to cope with this extrrreeeeeme party culture. I'll let you know next entry.

Ciao for now chicos!