Clay’s mom woke Mat and I up this morning at 430am. We had tried to convince her the night before that we could just take a taxi or a bus to the bus station to head to Mendoza this morning, but she insisted that there would be “no taxis, no buses, and that it would be too cold,” so she convinced us to let her drive us there. Even though it was 430am, she sat us down for breakfast (bread, cheese, coffee), and talked to me about how much she loves having kids stay with her. She said she already has 4 kids of her own, so having a few more to feed is nothing. I could tell that she just really loves to welcome study abroad students into her home as if they were her own, and she told me that if we even need a place to stay in Chile again that we were welcome. She took us to the bus station, and we thanked her a million times and said good bye.It was 2 hours from Vina to Santiago, and then another 10 from Santiago to Mendoza. A truck had turned over on the one road through the Andes, so we were backed up in traffic for a while before going through customs. We arrived in Mendoza finally around 7pm, exchanged our Chilean pesos for Argentinian pesos, then took a bus to our hostel called Empedrado Hostel and Wine. After we got a tour of the hostel, we settled in and then headed for the main street, Las Heras, for dinner. We ate at a place called El Jardin, then went strait back to the hostel completely exhausted. We met
a girl from Norway who was staying in our room,and then went to sleep.
