Day o' Excursions: El Lago

Sunday rocked. The day was broken into three different experiences, and I've decided to make each one it's own entry because they were all absolutely awesome, and deserve the space.

Tamara, Marc, Cecilia (from Brazil), Eduardo (also from Brazil) and I started our Sunday with a nice, huge breakfast. Yummm... it was so good to have a change from the daily boring-ass bread that they serve for breakfast here in Argentina. Phew. We had eggs, and juice, and toast, and yogurt. yum yum yum yum yum.

Then we hiked down to the club house of the cabinas and rented a pedal boat and a canoe and went out on the lake. The water was unbelievable. It was perfectly placid, and as green as can be. We paddled out to a little mini peninsula and set up camp. We laid out in the morning sun, splashed around a little, and giggled like idiots. Tamara was SO happy. Tilke, she reminded me of you because all she could do was keep giggling and screaming "Me gusta la agua!!" It was quite pristine though... definitely worth a visit, if any of you readers end up in Argentina any time soon.

The sun in San Rafael is extremely strong, however. Seeing as it's high summer right now, it's even more so. It's so strong, in fact, that the siesta actually makes sense. By noon, the sun had become so hot that the only thing we could fathom doing was getting inside, under some shade, and passing out. The heat was stifling and entirely sleep-inducing.

And so we slept.