if Hoth and the Endor moon had a baby

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a slightly less early morning, started with basically the same breakfast, scrambled (potentially) faux eggs, toast various pastries, and then we piled onto the tour bus to go to the Glacier National Park proper, using their gate and everything, reading all the signs to maintain the contamination (spanish doesnt have a word for pollution so they say contamination) free nature of the nature.

unfortunately it was very foggy, so the busride was a little lacking in fantastic vistas, and the subsequent boat ride to a different face of the Perito Moreno Glacier was also made a whole lot less interesting. here are a bunch of pictures of that stuff anyways.

the fog was actually pretty cool, it cut visibility down to like 50m. this boat got real close to the edge of the Perito Moreno glacier, if you compare the pic there of the glaciar face, you can see it is very similar to one of em from yesterday.

after the boat ride we were dumped back on shore, saw a fox, and rode up a mountain overlooking the glacier and walked around a bunch of raised pathways, and took a shitton of pictures as the fog cleared

i walked around with a group of girls that i previously had little conversation with. as i had suspected the homestay situations caused the cliques to develop based on location, and ultimately they were rather heterogeneous and nonporous.

here are more pictures

also, here is one of those oh so rare pictures of me

the walk was fantastic, seeing the glacier from above like that, hearing it moan and creak and crash as it warmed up unevenly and broke and shifted, in one of those pics you can see a huge recent break, unfortunately we were the other side of a hill and only heard it. that is clearly multiple dozens of tons of snow, even being probably 1km away, and around a rather large hill we heard this crack and fall off, and it was on par with the loudness of standing atop a subway grate with the train running beneath you.

this trip ate up almost all of the day, we returned, napped, at dinner, and partied again in our hotel room. the cards against humanity game ( http://cardsagainsthumanity.com/ ) i had printed up in Buenos Aires was a hit, and i handed them off to a freshmeat girl who im sure will have at least one fun game out of it back home with her roomates before they destroy the cards.

luckily with all our hotel shenanigans, nothing bad happened, no broken furniture or fixtures, no one getting in trouble and no over-imbibing to the point of potential injury