Over the last weekend we went to Argentina and even though it was a short trip, we loved it. The drive from Chile to Argentina is worth the trip by itself. You have to drive through a mountain pass in the Andes to get across the border and the view is spectacular. There are two levels to the bus and Ashley and I got to sit at the front of the top level with huge windows in front of us. It was like having a private screening of the Andes Mountains. The whole ride we were just in awe of the beauty of God's creation. I can barely describe the snow-capped mountains surrounding us or the beautiful river that snaked along next to the highway that we took. Also, there is one road up the mountain where you do about twenty turnbacks in a row. It was pretty fun except there were no guardrails and a few times we thought the bus was going to drive off the mountain. Once we got to Mendoza, the first thing we did was eat steak and it is true when they say that Argentina has the best steak. Also, we did something really fun. We went paragliding. We decided we might not have the opportunity to paraglide in the Andes Mountains again so we had to do it. It was amazing. We basically ran off the side of a mountain and the wind just took us up in the air. It was an incredible experience. We had to leave the next day, but I feel like we did as much as we could do in what little time we had. If you want to see some of the pictures, here is a link to the photo album on facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2040633&id=82202048&l=f3dff2db7c
Blessings to everyone,
Zach
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time flies when you're having fun
We can't believe that we have been here almost three months. It seems like just yesterday we got off the plane. Up to this point, this experience has felt like a blur, but it has been a blur of great memories. We're going to try to recap whats been going on lately with us. One big thing coming up is that we are going to Argentina at the beginning of next week for two days. Our tourist visas are only for 90 days and we could stand in line downtown and pay $100 each to get them renewed, or we can leave the country and reenter it to get a new tourist visa. We figured we might as well put $200 towards a fun trip to Argentina (the bus tickets and hotel cost less than $200) because we won't spend that much more. We are really excited to go to another country, but I think we are most excited about the steak. They say that Argentina has the best steak, so our goal is to eat as much steak as possible in two days. The bus ride back might not be as fun, but it should be worth it haha.
Another thing that we have been doing for about a month now is volunteering in a school to help kids practice their English. We work with a pre-school class, a 10th grade class, and an 11th grade class. I'm pretty sure that some of the kids are smarter than we are and are helping us with our English haha. We came up with our own Jeopardy game to play with some of the older kids and we felt like we had come up with some pretty tough questions about history, sports, movies, etc.. but they pretty much got every question right without even hesitating. The kids are very smart and we really enjoy working with them. We also told one of them that we would mention him in our blog because he has been reading some of it. So here you go Diego. You are now world famous because we mentioned you to the millions of (19) followers on our blog haha.
Ashley's makeup conferences have been going great. She has done several so far and still has a ton of makeup left which is good because I think she is doing 6 more before we leave. They are really cool becuase she does everyone's makeup and gives them some tips, but then she spends time talking about being beautiful on the inside and where true beauty comes from. It has been a huge hit with every group she has worked with. They all love it and we are still getting requests for her to do more. Well that is all we have for now. We miss you all and we really appreciate your prayers and encouragement.
Blessings,
Ashley and Zach
Another thing that we have been doing for about a month now is volunteering in a school to help kids practice their English. We work with a pre-school class, a 10th grade class, and an 11th grade class. I'm pretty sure that some of the kids are smarter than we are and are helping us with our English haha. We came up with our own Jeopardy game to play with some of the older kids and we felt like we had come up with some pretty tough questions about history, sports, movies, etc.. but they pretty much got every question right without even hesitating. The kids are very smart and we really enjoy working with them. We also told one of them that we would mention him in our blog because he has been reading some of it. So here you go Diego. You are now world famous because we mentioned you to the millions of (19) followers on our blog haha.
Ashley's makeup conferences have been going great. She has done several so far and still has a ton of makeup left which is good because I think she is doing 6 more before we leave. They are really cool becuase she does everyone's makeup and gives them some tips, but then she spends time talking about being beautiful on the inside and where true beauty comes from. It has been a huge hit with every group she has worked with. They all love it and we are still getting requests for her to do more. Well that is all we have for now. We miss you all and we really appreciate your prayers and encouragement.
Blessings,
Ashley and Zach
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