So, I made it back from Mendoza safely this morning, but it was a pretty adventurous trip. Last night on the way home someone through a rock through the window of our bus and nearly hit this girl in the face. We then had to stop and switch buses which added about another hour and a half to the already 14 hour trip. However we did make it back to the city safely after that. Sadly I lost my cell phone at a party in the hostel we stayed at this weekend. So, I am now contemplating buying a new one or just trying to make it without a phone for three more months. Other than those two things, the trip was a blast!! My roommate Liz and our two friends Lizzy and Rachael arrived to Mendoza on Thursday which was a beautiful, warm, sunny day. We explored the city which is so much cleaner and seems to be safer than Buenos Aires. We sat in two different parks and enjoyed the nice weather. Mendoza has tons of shops and one of the main plazas is located on a pedestrian street. It was nice to walk around without having to worry about getting hit by cars. That night, we went to dinner at a restaurant called Palenque and drank wine from penguin shaped mugs which was pretty cool. Later in the night, we went to a bar with some Argentinians guys we met at our hostel. The boys were in Mendoza for a philosophy convention through the University of Buenos Aires for the weekend. The next day we went on a biking tour through three different bodegas (wineries) and olive oil factory and a chocolate factory. We met a girl from Canada, another girl from Holland, and also a guy from Austrailia who was staying in our room at the hostel with us. We learned the correct way to taste wine. I ended up buying four bottles at the organic winery which was my favorite. We were all pretty tired after the wine tour, so decided just to make our own dinner at the hostel and relax the rest of the night. Saturday morning, we woke up early to go paragliding. We went paragliding from on top of a hill. We were harnessed onto an instructure with a parachute and ran and jumped off a hill and glided around for about a half an hour. We had such a beautiful view while we were in the air; it was incredible! Later that day we paid $50 pesos for a party with our hostel that included a wine tasting, asado (bbq), and a night out to a club. It was supposed to start at 1 but the majority of the events didnt start until around 8 when we went to a different hostel for the asado. After the asado the argentinians who worked at the hostel insisted on pouring tequila down our throats and we danced the rest of the night at the hostel instead of going to the boliche. Sunday Liz and I went rafting for the first time while Rachael and Lizzy went horseback riding. Our guide was pretty crazy but we had a good time and no one fell out of the raft surprisingly. We met Lizzy and Rachael back at the campground that we left in the morning, had a lunch that was supposed to be included but had to pay for and had to hurry to eat it because we had to leave to go canopy gliding. Canopy gliding is the same thing as zip lining where you are harnessed to a cable and you wear special gloves to glide across. We trekked up a hill and then glided down several times. The final two times we glided across a huge river. Two of the girls went upside down with an instructor. After a long day of activities we stayed in and had dinner at a taco place which was good but way more salty than normal. Yesterday before we left Liz and I shopped a little bit and went to what we though was going to be a good restaurant for an earlier dinner before getting on the bus. I got something called Sorrentino which the waiter told me was like a big ravioli. Liz ordered a salad but apparently the wrong one. My so called ravioli like pasta had ham and melted cheese in it. I hate ham, but I ate it because I was hungry. Liz's salad did not even have lettuce in it. It was bad tuna and gross canned vegetables. My meal included dessert which the water said was Alemendrado which means almond ice cream. He brought me a backed square of ice cream that actually had peanuts on it. What if I was allergic to peanuts?! After that, Liz and I decided we just needed to get back to BA. In all, the good things we did outweighed the bad and we had a great trip. I have to go now. Chau chau!