On to Bariloche

We left Las Lenas on the 5th late in the afternoon riding a bus to San Rafeal, what's funny is that the bus cost us less to go farther than the shuttle rides cost to get up and down from Los Molles to the ski area here. We (I'm reffering to Jen, Martin and I) are pretty excited to move on since Las Lenas has been a bit dissapointing with the nothing being open experience. We arrive in San Rafeal and it's a cute little city with a real local flavor, it just sucks that we have to hang out with all of our stuff at this tiny bus station for 4 hours. We take turns wandering around the downtown and gaurding our stuff and glaring at the creepy types. We finally get on our bus at 11:30 at night and find our comfy half bed seats and pretty much konk out for most of the ride. At least these big buses are really nice and you get better service than you do on an airlines for a lot less cost. We are on the bus for over 12 hours and the landscape is pretty consistently desert type until the end as we get closer to Bariloche, finally some trees and it starts to snow which is a good sign for us! We unload and deal with transferring us and our gear, find a hostel and get settled in. Bariloche is a cute, very touristy feeling town. It feels a lot more comfortable to us americans than the other places we've been in so far. It's been snowing all night, after making ourselves a nice dinner here at the hostel we went out for a fun little walk in the snow and hilly streets checking the area out - cool trees and lots of trendy restauarants and clubs .