LAZY HAZY CALAFATE DAY!

Day 308

Friday 4th January

El Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina

We recovered from our trek yesterday by sleeping in. As much as we could anyway! The 3 slice toaster cook starts clattering about in the kitchen at 6am! It´s so annoying!!! And she puts on the spanish tv which vibrates and sounds throughout our room like an acoustic guitar!

Went shopping again today..the funny thing here is there are no plastic bags in el calafate. No paper ones either. You either take your grocery shopping home in your own bag or you bundle it up in your clothes without even a sideways glance or a look or sympathy that might motivate some help from the supermarket staff!

We booked our ship tour today..for tomorrow. We´re going to go and have a look at some of the other glaciars on Parque Nacional Los Glaciars. Our tour will depart from Punta Bander and we´ll see the Upsala Glaciar as well as land on Bahia Onelli and take a walk around. There are a few other´s we´ll see on the return trip...teh Spegazzini and Seco Glaciars. We´re looking forward to seeing the glaciars..it´ll be a 12 hour boat ride to get there tho..but that´s what we´re here for!

Went back to La Lechuza for dinner and had empanada´s....they´re the meat or vege or pollo homemade pasties...ohlala..delicious! No time to diet here that´s for sure! Although..strangely...we´ve both lost weight! Especially Greg...who is swathing about in his lose jeans...He´s looking very handsome these days i must say!!!!! (could he get more handsome tho!) I know he´s reading this..but i´d say it anyway! ha!

This place is getting overrun by tourists.....far out. It´s getting frustrating!!!!!

PS Rang mum to see if she got back from Esperance safely...still no intenet or mobile connection. So annoying. The communication network in el calafate very frustrating! Do i sound grumpy about it? YES!!!!!!