We landed in Bariloche and found another super-easy transfer to our hostel. We relaxed in the evening an went out to dinner, then spent some time listening to a Canadian banker explain his disgust with the American banking system (and how all the Canadian banks had been so prudent in their lending).
In the morning, as we were changing hostels, Stef fell and cut her nose with the frames of her glasses. She left some blood on the ground:
It was bad enough that we needed to get her to the ER (called La Guardia, at least here in Argentina). Since it was early on a Friday, we were seen pretty quickly. A lot of alcohol, and a bunch of gauze pads later, and we left with steri-strips holding the cut together, and strict instructions to keep it clean and maintain the steri-strips for as long as possible…
As a result, Stef spent basically a full week sleeping and listening to music in our room, and I rode a mountain bike on the circuito Chico, met a bunch of random people at our hostel, and got a ton of work done on our blog (this is why I was able to post some of the photos from Antarctica as quickly as I did).
I also watched the buildup to Easter, in a Catholic country, in a town known primarily for chocolate. Every store had its own display of 10+pound chocolate Easter eggs, and some of them were even animated!
We left Bariloche in a rented car Friday morning, to drive the route of the 7 lakes and visit San Martin de Los Andes for a day.
