viaje a mendoza. day 2 and 3.

We woke up and had breakfast at the hotel on Sunday morning. Then we got on the bus to start our trip to the highest point in the America's. On the way up we stopped at several spots to take pictures. Also for you to know in case you one day do this...go to the bathroom before you start and don't drink anything for a very long time. There are limited bathrooms. I learned this the hard way. Ha. Several of us sat in the back of the bus and listened to sermons on our i-pods since we couldn't be in church. I listened to a John Piper sermon on John 3: 14-15 when Jesus is talking to Nicodemus about not being able to understand heavenly terms. Never once did Jesus grow angry but he simply loved. It sounds so simple. Why do I make is so much more difficult than this? Piper referenced the story in Numbers 21 where God tells Moses to make a snake. Through this snake God answered the peoples prayers in a way they did not understand, much like he does of our own prayers. Through this snake he saved his people and the poison of death was taken away. How true of a promise is this to the hope of the cross to come. These passages related so much to what i had been reading in "Crazy Love" and conversations I had just recently had. Continue to pray for conversations and that the Gospel would be proclaimed through our lives. Several of us have gotten to have conversations where our prayer is that these people would know Jesus. We so badly want their to be purpose and joy to their life. But continuing on with what we did...we finally got to the last stop and got out and hiked. It was more beautiful than I could have imagined. AND...remember that we were in the Andes Mountains??? Well, we ate ANDES MINTS while we were there. Wahoo! We are a crazy little bunch. On the way down we stopped at a couple of places that I don't really know the details of; one place was a bridge made of rock built by the Incans. I'm pretty certain of this but I do know that it looked like a big pumpkin. I'll put a picture up so you can see. The next day we got to go horse back riding. This was my first time on a horse and I was pumped! We rode all through the mountains where I have to say I was so nervous all I could do was pray my horse, Black Soul, didn't slip. The view from the top was crazy and I would do it again in a heart beat. We left there and went to a Winery for lunch and wine tasting. I'm still a baby and the only way I can drink wine is with Sprite for a spritzer...they didn't have any so i had to try to be a big kid. I didn't really succeed at this. I'll be a spritzer for life and I'm perfectly ok with that. Oh, I forgot to tell you about the camelish like animal that was at the place with horses. We went to go feed it grass when it decided to blow all of its food onto one of the girls in the group. We were all laughing so hard and I wasn't paying any attention so when I turned back around the creature thing blew more all over me! This stuff was green and lets be honest, it smelled and looked like it had come from the other end. Ew, grouse. It was hilarious!! When everything was done we headed back to the airport and came "home" to Buenos Aires. This trip was the greatest and was filled with more adventure than I could have ever thought.