well here i am again, once again i am not quite sure where to start. so i will just try and start at the somewhere. i went snowboarding last week, it was pretty neat but needless to say i am not much of a snowboarder. i did okay but it was pretty tough for a first timer. so after coming down from the mountian i drank a bottle of wine with brazilian girl and decided to make it skiing next time. she really wanted to go skiing, she had never been nor had she ever seen the snow. what a surprise that must have been for her. so we (the brazilian girl and her friend (she had never skiied either) as well as an english guy that we met) went up the mountian the next morning on the first bus. it was wild, the first time they ever saw the snow there was a white out on the mountian. we couldnt see more than thirty feet. that didnt deter us from going up up the hill (me and the english guy, the girls got some lessons). it was some of the wildest skiing i have ever done, it was really dangerous but it was really fun. so we came down the mountian later in the day when it was forced to close. when we got down we found out that the pass up to the mountian was closed and that everyone was stranded during the whiteout. it was a major travesty to get off the mountian, believe me we got very lucky to make it off, there were several hundred that were still stranded when we left. let me just say that i am very thankful that i speak spanish, it has gotten me out of more than one sticky situation.

so now i am much deeper in the Andes, i took a twenty hour bus ride north to mendoza, heart of wine country. also the outdoor capital of argentina. today i went white water rafting among the snowcapped mountians. yes i know that sounds a little crazy but it was amazing. we had full body wetsuits so we didnt get too cold. it was definately an experience whitewater rafting in the crystal clear glacial runoff in the andes. tommorrow i am going wine tasting with a couple of friends that i made in the different hostels that i have been staying in. it is amazing how many people you meet in the hostels. but anyways, am looking forward to tasting the best wine in south america.

will keep the blog going when i get back the buenos aires, or something like that.
so cheers to wine steak and the increadible Andes.