Howard has caught my cold and is inclined to stay at the resort today and look through his pictures. I’m happy to do that too. Breakfast is not especially great. There is instant coffee–ick. But Rex has his coffee press so we get a bit of tasty Peets coffee to wake us up. Howard takes beautiful photos
from the resort property as the rest of the photographers drive to other vantage points. We are left on our own for the day. In the afternoon everyone else goes on a boat tour to the glacier. They said it was well worth it but we still are glad we stayed in the ‘hood. We pay a mere (!!) $40 for a meager lunch of soup and salad and a couple of glasses of rough wine. Have I said that Argentina is expensive?! Mid-afternoon we take a 1 1/2 hour hike and get some nice photos of reflections in the calm lake.
The Pisco Sours are much more palatable today. Dinner is just OK–I had hoped for beef again but we get rather fatty baked pork ribs. My artichoke heart stuffed with tuna is inedible. The only tasty item is a puree of potatoes and pumpkin. The lemon meringue tart is left over from yesterday and is getting “weepy.” The resort closes tomorrow for the season so we are not getting freshly baked items–we are to finish up the left overs. At dinner Rex says “we should have gone to the spa.” So why didn’t he say that yesterday?! Oh well…the next group may get that option. Tomorrow is our last night in Patagonia. It seems to everyone that we’ve been gone for a month or more. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good trip–we all think it’s been spectacular.