La Estancia

On Tuesday and Wednesday I went to la estancia. La estancia is basically the countryside outside of Coronel Oviedo. My family has a ranch in la estancia, and we went there to celebrate my dad's birthday. My mom, Caroline (an exchange student from Arkansas), and I rode with my uncle. The drive was about an hour, and I don't even want to describe the roads we took to get there without pictures. They were crazy! Many of them were just dirt roads that were really (REALLY) washed out, leaving giant crevasses for us to navigate around.
Tuesday we didn't do much, we just came early to get ready for tomorrow. Also for supper we had the liver of a cow. I didn't really like it all that much.
Wednesday was the day of the party. Some relatives came over and we ate some delicious asado.
Fun fact: we didn't have birthday cake. We had mani (a kind of nut) with cheese and a sweet syrup from sugar cane. Again, I wasn't crazy about it.
Now: PICTURES! (With a little bit of luck)

A...plant? Tree?

The dining area (outdoors!) and the grill on the left.

The dining area (and Caroline)

 

A view of some of our land in la estancia

The outside of the forest

One of the trees. It's being attacked by vines!

ATTACKED. VINES.

Just some more of the land. It was a beautiful (yet hot) day

Caroline and I outside the entrance

My mom, Caroline and I outside

Bonus: Caroline's dramatic shot that I didn't know about until I saw it on her tumblr!

 

Today I started reading a book (in Spanish, mind you) called Contravida. I spent all of literature class and got about four pages in because I had to translate so many words. Hopefully it gets a lot easier, because I have to have the book finished for Spanish class before the end of October!

 

And finally, some news! A week from today, I'll be on my way to Argentina for a district meeting of some sort. Juanro, my brother, told me that we'll be going to the waterfalls too!