October 27, 2018: A fun first day in General Pico with Loli's awesome family!!!

Horseback riding, chipas, art gallery, politics, hammocks, dogs, cats and dogs that look like sheep!!!!!!

My warm welcome!

There's so much to contar... I'm going to format this post by showing you tons of photos and then explaining them.

#1: Loli's broken suitcase... it made me lol that she was walking around with it like this.

#2: Our bus offered us free wine!!! (Well I guess it was included in the price but it felt free.)

#3: Cheers betchez.

#4: Also cheerz betchez.

#5: They also gave us "dinner" was but it was nasty so I ate the bread and did some Sodoku!

#6: They later offered us whiskey or piña colada... gladly accepted the piña colada as you can see.

#1: Hi there.

#2: My fort.

#3: My fort (part II).

#4: The beautiful sunrise sometime between 4:00am and 6:00am I honestly don't remember.

Loli's house is BEAUTIFUL!!!!! The front of it is very very cute but humble. Holy crap it's massive though. It extends por todos lados and reminds me of a hotel! She has 2 hanging hammocks (which we spent a good amount of time in) and a pool (which was unfortunately very green today).

The faces of two very exhausted girls (and also one of the girls' moms) around 7:30am on a brisk morning during a house tour.

The Loli's have 2 dogs and 2 cats! The cat in the middle is very sassy!

We napped for 2 hours and then went to the town center. We stopped at their family friend's house and this woman had 3 dogs that all looked exactly the same! She calls them sheep. She also called me her little "norteamericanita" which was pretty darn funny.

When we came home, Loli and I just laid in the sun in her backyard for about an hour. Then we ate lunch with her parents and it was DELICIOUS. Her mom made a great salad and milanesa napolitana and we ate strawberries and bananas for dessert. We then proceeded to let the food settle in our guts for about 1.5 hours. That's when I snapped these pics with the friendlier but still not really friendly cat.

Then we went horseback riding!!! Loli's mom bought us an entire bag of chipas which is like cheesy bread but 1 million times better. I ate a lot of it.

#1: Me and my friend... we look alike.

#2: Swag.

#3: Me and my two friends.

#4: Loli and I in our really sexy helmets.

#1: My first kiss.

#2: Trotting around.

#3: Trotting around but zoomed in more.

#4: Lol my head is cut out of the picture but I'm tossing up a thumbs up.

Riding the horses was fun! The 3 horses were named Ilusión, Príncipe, y Gordito. Can you guess which one I rode? That's right, Gordito... the one named "little fat one." I actually was put on Príncipe first, but he was going a little fast for my liking. Gordito was my true calling anyway.

We got home from the horse place and then Loli and I sat outside in the hammock and talked to her dad about the politics and history of politics in Argentina... it was SO interesting! If only I had this same interest in my own country... but alas I do not.

#1: Sipping mate and being crazy.

#2: Fam goofing off.

#3: Me raising the mate cup to the sky because it made me feel powerful.

#4: Mr. Loli insisted that we take a photo with this wall in the background so here you have it.

#5: Squad.

#6: I feel like this should be an album cover.

We went to Loli's mom's art gallery (where she also teaches theater!) around 8:30pm because they had a show. I honestly don't really like art but I LOVED this. Every piece was so unique. They use this method where they use a ton of tiny pieces of paper ripped up to make an image... kind of hard to explain and I didn't take a pic of any but they were so cool. Loli's dad was being so funny interpreting the art to me. Describing the bottom left picture, he said, "Here is a woman oppressed by religion..." and then he pointed to 2 women in the picture and said, "and... lesbians." And that was his analysis HAHAHA. He is such a funny guy. The top left and top middle works are done my Loli's mom!! She is incredible!

We went directly to dinner after the art gallery and Loli and I went out to eat with one of her friends, Lara, who is actually the girl that taught me how to ride the horse! She is pictured in one of the photos above. Dinner was super yummy- cheese fries and a capresse pizza! We got home around 1:00am and now all of a sudden it is 2:22am and I'm still awake! That's about to change... goodnight folks.

I'm so happy I came to General Pico and that I can spend this weekend with Loli's family! It feels nice to be with a family.

Song Recommendation of the Day: "Lisztomania" by Phoenix