*at the end of the world - rio gallegos, ushuaia and tierra del fuego

we spent 2 days in rio gallegos with eduardo, graziella and their sons. rio gallegos is not the most exciting of locations (when eduardo took us for a sightseeing ride around town he was pointing out a post office, a 100 years old church, a school and ...that would be it). it was graziella and eduardo who turned out to be the main attraction :) we were chatting for hours, the asado (home bbq) that they made was absolutely mniamy ( i was caught red handed picking up meat from the grill when i thought no one was waching and this is me saying - not a huge meat lover). and eduardo being a photographer took professional photos of two of us (have no fear my friends! all the items of clothing remained on). it is so weird how all of the suddent because of aga´s blue eyes and my more and more blond hair we became models . but hey, that´s the end of the world! ah, i just remembered: there is another attraction in rio gallegos - river gallegos itsefl - beautiful!
we took a bus from rio gallegos to ushuaia. it was 8 hours delayed coz of all the border crossing mess(noone seemed to be to surprised or conscerned), on the way we crossed the magellan strait (very windy) and God knows how i created a little kindergarten around my seat :) was fun for a while but then i got bored and sleepy. i guess by no means it is time to have kids yet, you cant get bored and sleepy around your own kids - there are there forever!
anyhow we finally made it to ushuaia in the middle of the night and didnt want to call lucia and augustina (our hosts) at this mad time, people were saying that with no bookings we wont be able to get a place to sleep, it was freezing cold and we were so tired... grrr.. there is even no bus nor train station and we didnt have a map of the city.. it all didnt look promising but the taxi driver knew of a place with beds so when we made it to the hotel and got to our beds and noticed that the room has a view (!!!)at ushuaia bay and the mountanis and all the city lights i was so happy and excited that i couldnt fall asleep. again, we were so so lucky :)
the atmosphere is ushuaia is very much like ´the northen exposure´( przystanek alaska) maybe a bit more people in trekking shoes and goretex jackets. and we start recognizing the same tourist faces on the street or in the buses.
when we finally made it to luica and augustina´s house (the best house design ever, i took pictures from every possible angle to get my future architect to design something similar) we went for a hike to tierra del fuego national park and it was all so beatiful. and today we climed a mini glacier.
tomorrow we want to see the pinguins and on wednesday we are gonna make our way back north to punta arenas in chile.
take care all and write to me, im dying for some gossip from home!