Cordoba Nov. 18 Miercoles

We arose at 930 un otra vez and had the same yummy breakfast as the day before.  Since we still had no moto (supposedly, the transmission was being fixed and Uli left the permit paper with Alejandro to go to the bank for him) we had to take the bus.  It's okay...5p each but takes about 40 min. because it stops everywhere.  it randoly stops ont he highway at weird little spots that you cant really tell are busstops except for a random person waiting...we arrived in Capilla del Monte and went straight to the tourist office after discovering many stores were closed on this bright, sunny early afternoon.  we both think that's pretty strange because prime business hours are between 12-5.  everyone shuts down and has a nap!  weird! so we went in there and they gave us a brochure with all these adventure companies on it.  the girl told us we'd have to call someone on it since everyone was closed.  so, we wen to the phone locutorio and Uli proceded to call like a dozen places.  he finally got a hold of someone who said he'd meet us in 15 min.  que bueno!  we got some empanadas and went and met him.  his name was ariel...nice guy.  he drove us to a place in the mountains "Los Terrones"...we got out and it was a place that held trekking tours around a rocky part of the mountain.  it had a restaurant, gift shop an a cute little kitty wanting some attention outside :) :)  we ate our empanadas and i fed some to the cat.  that cat totally made my day.  we had to wait for a group of about 50 girls to go ahead of us because, Ariel said, we would be around a ton of noise and we wouldn't be able to enjoy the tranquility.  on we went...we walked down a path around the rocks and climbed a few for some great views...we took picture.  many of the giant rocks are named because they look like animals...a camel, gorilla, hand of God, things like that.  there were some great views.  we ran into the group of girls at one point and stopped to let them pass us because they went around the other way.  that must of been hard for the guide because he'd have to keep waiting for the rest of them to catch up.  we descended a bit towards an area that would normally have water in it and walked a long them.  he was explaining about the area, but i couldnnt' udnerstand a lot.  we walked down and around and even through a cave-like place that would normally have a mini-waterfall running through it, if there was water.  it was funny how there was cow shit eerywhere in the rocks and whatnot, but you never saw a cow.  it was almost like they were ghosts.  we were out there for about 3 hours or so.  Ariel drove us back and on the wy we stopped to look at some toros (bulls) and some cabras (goats).  the toros were kind of gross - big animals who did all their bathroom business while we were looking at them.  and a black show bull kept staring at us angrily.  Ariel dropped us off in the middle of town.  we wandered around and went into a few stores - quite a few had scarves, clothing and various other things from India.  Beautiful items...reminded me of the Black Market at home.  we were starving so we went for an early dinner at a place in town.  it was quite nice but i can't remember the name. Uli had a steak with tons of vegetables and i had this weird chicken curry...i ended up having to pick all this skin and gross veins and things off the chicken...i cant' just eat it like that.  we bought a gift for Susana, the woman who owns the hospidaje Anita - it's one of those paper lamps with vines around it like the 2 in my apartment.  we took too long and didn't catch the bus until like 10.  we got back t Villa Giardino at 11.  aswe were walking we saw lightning...but it was part of a cloud that was very far away and the rest of tghe sky was still starry.  so we could see the lightning going off in the different parts of the cloud- heat lightning.  we got some ice cream and stood there for awhile eating and watching the different areas of the cloud light up.  it was pretty.