Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Rio Gallegos and El Calafate

So we have been in Rio Gallegos since Saturday. We had some awesome food down here! Lots of Asado which is pretty much a BBQ, but better. I got to meet one of Preston´s converts and his family. They were the nicest people I´ve ever met! I learned how much of an effect he had on the people down here and it just makes me feel so blessed to have him in my life. On Sunday, we got to speak again. It was very last second, but luckily for me I got to do it in English this time while Preston translated it. The people here have been so nice to us! We´ve been very lucky!

Sunday night we headed to El Calafate. We left Rio Gallegos at 8:30 and arrived there at about 12:30. We stayed in a Police Station. That´s right, except we were in the dormitories they allow police officers and a few other people. Preston knew someone in Gallegos that knew a member that worked for the police department in Calafate so we were so lucky and were able to stay there. It was only about an hour from the Glacier. So we went to the Glacier yesterday. It is so big! You don´t truly understand until you see it for yourself. It is sky blue! It was so amazing. You couldn´t help, but just want to stay and look at it for hours! The only downside to it was that it was pretty chilly! We have had so much fun down here! We are excited to go back to Buenos Aires though. We have a few more things we want to do including going to Preston´s first area, a fiesta for us on Friday, and a swap meet (a huge one from what I´ve heard). This next week is going to fly by!

Well we´re now getting packed so we are ready to go catch our plane this afternoon!

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