Patagonia & Happy Thanksgiving!

Carl gave you most of the details, now I get to fill in with pictures :)

Thank goodness it's so amazingly beautiful around here! That was the only thing that made Monday's drive enjoyable. We saw some really cool animals, tons of guanacos, 2 rheas (like ostrich, and that was extremely lucky because they were hours apart and are rare here), andean condors, tons of sheep, and several black chested buzzard eagles.

We have seen a several cool adventure vehicles. Carl was extremely envious of this one.

As we crossed over a small hill we found hundreds of cows in the road! There were several guachos (Chilean Cowboys) with their dogs, trying to herd them. We literally turned the car off for about 10 minutes while cows of all sizes streamed around us. Small cows would take off and the dogs would chase after it. It was fascinating to watch!

It was worth it, this is the room from our hotel room!! The Rio Sorrano is a decent hotel. The staff really warmed us to us after being here for several days (most of the guests are here for one night in large tour groups). They were especially wonderful with the kids. The food was better than we have had elsewhere in Chile, but still not great. 

I will add lots more Sunday when we have better internet (we hope...)