I like to Sing!

As many of you know, I like to sing, but when I said this to a goucho in spanish he was a bit confused as to why.

So we really like to gallop the horses. and not everyone gallops as much as we do. so after a long gallop a couple of days ago I asked george (our official translator) how do you say I like. I ahd also heard some of the english guides saying a word liek canteur to the spanish speaking guides. I thought maybe it was a spanish word as well and meant the same thing.. So I said to my friend Juan, a true goucho, ¨mi gusto cantuer¨however, the way I said it sounded like in spanish.. I like to sing.. He looked at me funny and the other guide said gallope, so I then said mi gusto gallope. George later informed me that I had said to juan, I like to sing. Wich is true... anyway so now we are always saying, I love to sing! after a nice cantuer.

I don´t have much time so i´m only writing a bit right now.

One mroe thing that´s been a large part of this trip is tasting patagonia. I don´t mean tasting the food of patagonia, I mean as we are riding my slow horse is always in the back and I am literally eating patagonia dust. My face is black by the end of the day and therés so much dirt in my eyes that it looks like I have eye liner on. The color of our boogers has been a large topic of conversation. Its not as bad for my mother because her speed deamon of a horse is always in front. I like my horse though. She´s got quite a bit of personality adn I cna tell she doesn´t really trust my decisions on the trail, ha. SHe´s always looking at me saying what are you doing?

alright ath´s all i´ve got for now.. except I wanted to tell you I wore the heart shaped glasses the entire day on valentines day and people just tried not to stare when they first saw me. The swomen in charge of the new estancia said, that´s an interesting way to see patagonia, with rose colored glasses! haha. It was really weird when I took them off. Everything was much greener.

alright, off to a parade! this week is a festival for the poeple that love on esxtancias that aren´t the owners of the estancias. THeres a bunch of people around wearing traditional wear and you know how I feel about parades!

ciao, ciao!

Christine