Puerto Piramides

Today we took a 21 hour bus trip to Puerto Madryn to see the whales on a boat. The bus trip wasn't so bad, I woke up at 5AM and then fell back to sleep in no time.n Later, all four of us woke up at 7:00 AM because the bus attendant was yelling the name of the city we were in. Some of the passengers left the bus, but others stayed on, including us.

Our stop was at 10:30. Finally, in what seemed like a year, we got off at Puerto Madryn. It was very hot, it was burning just like I had walked onto the sun.

The first thing we did was to get a car. It was a white one and there were no doors to the back. So, we have to climb through the front into the back. We stayed next to the car for a few minutes and then we decided to go eat lunch.

The restaurant where we ate was called Cantina El Nautico, and it was really good. I had raviolis with a meat sauce and there was spinach in the raviolis. It was delicious!

We returned to the car. The trip to Puerto Piramides from Puerto Madryn was 2 hours. Finally, we got out at our new place. It had 2 single beds and one double and a kitchen. We got all excited because it had DirectTV.

We really like DirectTV because it means that the remote can turn the tv shows into English. It only works for the shows that were taped in English and then dubbed into Spanish. The shows that are on television that are filmed in Spanish can't be changed into English.

After we finished looking at our room, we walked over to an office near the beach to have them give us directions on where to see the whales. She told us that it would be windy the following day and we decided to go the day after next.

We went to the beach and put our feet into the water. We jumped back just in time because the water was freezing cold! We figured out that the whales thought this water was WARM!

While we were on the beach, we met 3 kids who spoke English!!! They were from Bedford, New Hampshire and were in school in Buenos Aires because their dad works for the US Embassy in Argentina. We played a game together and then they had to go. They were taking the 6:00 boat to see the whales. It was no fun playing without them on the beach, so we decided to leave.

We went back to the hotel and ate dinner. We watched some Disney TV (in English) and then I laid down and before I knew it, I was asleep.