Friday, March 23, 2007

Last day of preparations


So as you can see our bags are packed! There are a few empty pockets for treasures we may find on the way, but they are heavy!!! At this point, I am almost hoping that it is cold so that we can utilize all our cold weather gear (the weather in Viedma is looking beautiful, and not nearly as cold as we had feared!). If not, we will be having a flea market on the side of a road that heads more south!

Facundo has gone to get a few last items, and then we are off! One of the items that he has decided to get was a cooking stove. We simply can't figure out a good way to keep our tin cans without cutting something in our packs! So much for our handy dandy inexpensive stove!

The kids can't wait! Harrison says that he slept so much last night so he won't be tired on the trip! I wish!! Kaylan is of course, trying to figure out how to convince us that she needs every book, toy, stuffed animal, crayon, colored pencil, carrying case, hair tie that she owns in order to make it on this trip!

For them, we have packed our family favorite card game, Old Maid, along with a chapter book, music, and paper and crayons. Hopefully that will keep them occupied for a little while; there is always sleeping too!

Our first leg of the trip is a 21 hour train trip to Carmen de Patagones. The train stops in every town that it passes, which we will use the stops to get some food. Then, the plan is to see Carmen de Patagones until Monday, and then off to Puerto Madryn. We are hoping to still catch sight of some whales and penguins there!

Keep your fingers crossed for us!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hola Yessica, soy Miriam, estuve viendo los 2 sitios q me dio y la verdad no entendimos mucho con mi novio xq estaba todo en ingles. le agradezco toda su buena disposicion conmigo y espero volver a verla pronto. mucha suerte en su viaje. kiss Miriam