Yesterday was one of those days that just never ended. We thought it was going to be 15 km to the first town; it ended up being 35. Then we thought it was going to be all downhill for 14 km to the town after that and it ended up being 28 km and half uphill and most of the downhill parts had such a strong headwind that we had to pedal.
That day was hard, even though it was Christmas Eve. We had some M&M-type things on the road, even if the road was almost all dirt.
When we finally got into the town we found two decent hotels. We looked at each hotel and picked one. Me and Dad got Pepsi for us and Sprite for Daryl and Mom.
When night came we all went to sleep and then this morning woke up with four Pico-Dulce lollipops (Argentine), about ten Billiken mas+ taffys (also Argentine), one bag of M&M’s, two Pops Evolution lollipops, and one bag of Skittles from Santa. We did our math and I watched Gladiator.
Mom says she’ll take us out for ice cream to celebrate Christmas once the store opens after siesta.
oh laugh, I thought the Skittles was a game with ball and ten pins, now I get that they are sweets. I did wonder how Santa would find Skittles in small-town Argentina. Merry Xmas from Australia.
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Hi, I am the son of the teacher guy your mom skyped with a few weeks ago named Jeff in Hoover Alabama. Wow your Christmas was so much different than ours. I cant believe you had to climb 28k on Christmas Eve. I would have been worn out! You guys are inspiring us to follow our dreams. Tell your mom I said happy birthday. What is your favorite genre to read mine is mystery what’s yours?
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