an update on the towel, as well as gaucho-ness

strangely enough, the most comments we have received on a post has been my post on the smelly towel!!! i would just like to follow up with the fact that i purchased a 100% cotton towel at falabella for 12 pesos, and i have never been fresher. just in case you were wondering. smell factor = 0!!!

kavitha will update you on the occurrences of the past two days but i just wanted to update you on todays gaucho experience that me and cheryl went to. although it was muy expensive at $190 pesos (about $60 canadian), as soon as we got off the bus we were given empenadas (WOOOOOOOT!) and argentinean wine. best empenadas i have ever had! of all the ones i have encountered, these have included carne, pollo, and corn. carne is definitely the best. i quite enjoy the bits of hard boiled egg and olive in them. :D

after that, we went on a couple of horseback rides - quite short but a lot of fun. hooper had a blast as she had not been horseback riding before. muy shoutouts to liz, it reminded me of when we went in hawaii. sob.

then we had the meatiest meaty asado i had ever seen before. it included chorizo, blood sausage (not a repeat consumer of this), various cuts of beef (vacuno), and chicken. with some random salads - one of which i particularly enjoyed. i will discuss more in depth the blood sausage and salad.

the blood sausage, which is like black pudding, was semi repulsive. taste wise, it was good, but texture wise it was like eating meaty butter. not a fan! particularly gross was when you sliced into it - jets of it just squirted out. shudder.

one of the salads had mayo, potatoes, beets, hard boiled eggs, and tomatoes. a colourful and unlikely combo, but muy delicious!

overall, both cheryl and i had a major case of meat sweats AND meat coma. and we only had half a portion of what we were supposed to! i cant even imagine those people who had the full servings of meat provided.

also, there were a bunch of chinese peeps on the tour - they were cantonese speakers! so i had a nice conversation with them. this was in contrast to last night, which kavitha will speak to more in depth.

after the huge lunch, we ended up seeing a bit of tango and some gaucho performances. this included a lot of spinning of ropes and tapping and slapping and dancing. muy fun!

and after that, we ended up watching a mini-rodeo. it was muy dusty!!!

btw - i should add in our blog that the word of this trip so far has been MUY, and we try to use it as much as possible, even though it is incorrect. i think it actually means [very]. for example,

that guy is MUY cute!!!!!
you need to MUY ZOOM on to that soccer player!
i am so MUY tired!

sometimes we will use it with a proper spanish word, such as, MUY BUENO! but this does not happen often.

on that note, i am awfully dusty from the estancio gaucho party, so i am off to take a shower with my wonderful towel. i will talk to you later! tonight we are off to a tango show!