Mar del Plata

I call this: pineapple tree

Someone had hairy pollo,(chicken). hahahaha

Lomito con queso! yummy!

This place has some of the best churros I ever tasted!

La playa

Every chocolate covered thing you can imagine. OMG

This was probably the worst hostel I've stayed in on all my trips! EWW

Beach Time! I burned for the first time in my life and realized the sun here is way stronger than in Indiana! Oops!

Montevideo, Uruguay

A mask at the Museo del Carnival

La parilla, the biggest grill I have ever seen! This place was at the port of Montevideo and was amazing!

Las Chicas!

Our hostel... El Viajero.

These are the most comfortable buses ever...each seat is its own recliner!

Haha

This cafe served the CUTEST café con leche (coffee with milk) ever!

My new drink of choice, Medio Medio, is have white wine and half champagne

An example of makeup for Carnival. Scary

All of the following are pictures from the Museo del Carnival.

Montevideo is a smaller, cleaner, less crowded version of Buenos Aires, with better food, alcohol, no dog poop, and a panoramic view of water. Basically, when I got there I wondered if I had picked the wrong city to study abroad in....and I am still thinking the same thing. haha! We spent the weekend eating in cute cafes, site-seeing the city, going to bars at night, and visiting the Museo del Carnival. It was a great weekend with beautiful weather, lots of carne asado, medio medio (half white wine, half champagne...a native beverage of Uruguay) and tons of laughs!

Mendoza

El caballo

Horseback riding through the Andes!

Our guide, or gaucho (cowboy) Matias and our horses.

I went zip-lining across this river and the mountains! Amazing!!!

Olive press at the fábrica de aceite de oliva, olive oil factory.

A beautiful bodega, vineyard, with the Andes Mountains in the background

Tee hee.

Umm, I can't remember the name of these...but its where the wine sits and gets yummy I think.

Hot springs...this shot out water!

The hot springs...fun but strange. We were expecting a whole in the ground and got something between a man-made hot tub and swimming pool. Hmmm....

My trip to Mendoza was probably my favorite so far. Its the "wine country" of Argentina, exporting something like 70% of its wine productions to countries like the US. The first day we went to hot springs in the mountains. It was fun but not exactly what we expected. There were 4 or 5 "pools" with water that was either varying from very hot to cold. The next day we went on a tour of two vineyards and an olive oil factory. I bought a bottle of the most deeeelicous bottle of extra virgin rosemary olive oil for the equivalent of less than $4. Yummmy! The next day we went horseback riding through the Andes mountains a plains. It was absolutely beautiful but cold and rainy! But I would do it again in a heartbeat! My last day in Mendoza, we went zip-lining across the mountains and over the most blue and beautiful river I have ever seen! I went flying from one area to another with nothing holding me one besides a little metal harness! I loved it all!!!