Oh ya, im supposed to do this

Actually i´ve just been lazy, but everyone probably knew that.  Well its been a long time, so i´m just going to talk about recent stuff and maybe a quick rundown of everything else.
Right now I´m in Mendoza just for one night and tomorrow we go to Santiago, Chile. So since my last post I think we spent some time in Mendoza, Uspallata, Bariloche, and back to Mendoza.  All of this was amazing in its own way, but I don´t feel like writing very long so i´m going to talk about Bariloche...I think going in reverse order, so starting with yesterday and ending (if I make it that far) with the start in Bariloche.
Bariloche is a beautiful ski town/city in the southern part of Argentina situated in the patagonia lakes district.  It is surrounded the Andes and massive lakes filled with the cold water of the Ande´s snow melt.  One of the best parts of the town was the chocolate.  In the main downtown street, which is probably around 5-7 blocks, there is literally more chocolate shops than in all of eugene, with amazing chocolate...needless to say I spent more money than i should have.  Another great part of the chocolate shops, was how friendly they were, so we could (and did) go from shop to shop getting lots of samples while acting like we were going to buy something.
The first full day in Bariloche we went to a breathtaking lookout.

The lookout was supposed to be a twenty minute bus ride from town, but today was one of those days where logan was at his absolute best.  When we were getting directions in the morning the guy clearly told us to get off the bus after the 17km mark.  So when we got on the bus and logan had the window seat and I couldn´t see the road I naturally put in him in charge of watching the km signs and figuring out when we were supposed to get off the bus.  After a while on the bus Logan said it was time to get off the bus and me being a trusting friend didn´t bother double checking his judgement.  We got off the bus and to my wonderful suprise there was nothing that looked liked a lookout, just a normal mountain road a long ways from town.  At first I was confused because I was sure we had followed the directions, that is until I saw the sign that said km 14!  Somehow logan had heard 17 and over time changed that in his mind to 14. I´m slowly starting to realize Logan can´t be trusted with directions, because this isn´t the first time where he´s gotten directions and then acted on them without double checking, confident in his memory and sense of direction, and we´ve ended up at the wrong place or going the wrong direction.  After a nice walk up the mountain rode we got to the base of the lookout where logan quickly realized that he had forgotten his water...let the mooching begin.  However, after hiking the rest of the way to the lookout it was amazing.  A 360 view of the andes and gigantic lakes.
Oh, and continuing with the theme of Logan for the day.  He was later called stingy (putting it nicely) by a guy from Malta because Logan refused to share his chocolate with him after he had previously shared food with logan.  Then, apparently Logan has a little problem with lactose, because after eating his chocolate he quickly preceded to heavily pollute the air in the dining room and then ran upstairs and went to bed.  

Moving on. The 2nd day in Bariloche.  We were recommended to go on a hike to a place called Frey. Without a doubt the most beautiful hike I have ever been on, absolutely amazing.  The weather was also amazing, a perfect spring day and all that was needed was shorts and t-shirts. We were told it was a 4 hour hike that you could do faster without much effort.  However, the hike turned out to be 4 hours in and 4 hours out.  It was a long day, but without a doubt worth it.

After this the weather turned sour.  Spent the next couple of days hanging around town and the hostel.  The hostel was great and had an amazing collection of friendly people.  The night after our hike pretty much the rest of the hostel went out to the bars and didn´t start filtering in until 5-7 in the morning, our roomate literally went to bed 30 minutes before logan got out of bed.  It was funny because the next morning they were all hung over and it was the Argentina national census so literally everything was closed and they couldn´t get food anywhere.  Finally after a few hours they got enough energy to walk around and I think after a while they had to go to a hotel to get food.

Last exciting thing was I got to navigate a Argentinian hospital.  We are going to Bolivia so I needed a yellow fever vaccine, which is only given at the hospital once a week.  So I went there and with some very broken spanish and charades was able to succesfully get my shot.  The best part...vaccines in Argentina are free

Well thats all for now, i´m tired of writing.