My weekend!

So I had such a fantastic weekend that i figured this blog will be able to mas o menos show you what i did and what happened. So read each caption for the photo and continue reading for the rest of the story in each photo caption...

Anywho me and a few friends decided it would be fun to go to Salta Cristal for the weekend camping and here is how it went.

on the road! We all met up at 8:00AM (it was supposed to be 7:00AM but we are on Paraguayan time) we went to the supermarket to buy food for the weekend and we on our way. I was in Sergio´s car with Elien and Charleen the two other cars were set and we begun the trip!

About seven minutes into our adventure Sergio´s tire popped. I can not say it was a complete shocker considering that only three out of the four doors opened, two windows worked and there was only one seat belt.

Then our other car buddies came over to help fix the tire,  which worked and we put on a spair in order to drive it  to a gas station but we ended up only having two cars because spair tires are not good to drive for long distances.

While we were dropping off the car at the gas startion me and my new car buddies raided the snack isle and purchased ROAD TRIP MUNCHIES! thank you father for training me how to travel by car haha :)

There was just a little bit less space with six people in a five seated car...  So every one had to get comfortable with eachother really fast.

This is our other group of people on the trip and my friend David realizing how lost we are after driving for three hours in 115F degree weather with none working AC

Then David and Fernando went to ask dirrections. Funny fact about Paraguay you can ask anyone directions and they will always give you them, but most of the time they just mess with you and say it is 50km south when its really 15km west... This was one of the situations where they messed with us; so we then paid this guy on a motor cycle to show us how to get there.

Then we ran into a road block and had to wait, and wait, and wait some more.

Finally we got on the dirt road to the correct place!! Which was slightly terrifying considering Fernando´s car is not much better than Sergio´s and the bottom grinds on the ground when you go over a rock. 

We made a pit stop at an old famous iron processing plant that was used when there was the big war in paraguay to make iron for the wepons used.

This was the area inside where it showed all the people that worked and the things that they made.

How to produce iron, for future use if any of you need it!

POR FIN! We arrived!! After our one hour and fourty minute trip turned into a five hour one, sitting and sweating on top of each other in the car we made it!

It was worth every extra minute of the car ride. The place was enchanting i had to take so many pictures beacuse i could not even believe it myself. Me along with all my my friends kept saying things like ¨We live in Paraguay!¨or ¨We are swimming in South America!¨ In the space below the falls we swam and played frisbee and volleyball. The water was quite chilly but felt amaizing next to the hot summer day.

After a swim we set up camp! With the very limited camping supplies that we had, we made do. I was really happy that we were not in colorado because all anyone had was sheets and shorts because of the 50LBS limit that AFS puts on your suit case requirements haha

Finally it was night time! After a long day of summer we hung out and played cards and talked. Mind you it was only in Spanish beacuse our Paraguayan friends get VERY angry when we speak english or Holandés. Which i am realizing we do quite a lot considering i am starting to understand Holandés...quite sad. But this was some of the group that was camping with us, some awesome people! (left to right, David, toto (blue shirt both are Paraguayans), Lieselot, Elien, Charleen, Agnese, ME!, and two guys in the front at Ruben  and Simon in the blue shirt).

This was the beautiful fire that the guys made. They were on fire duty and the girls were on dinner duty steriotypical paraguay culture 

Sunday morning! everyone was pretty tired but ready for the day and the trip back home. The weekend made everyone really understand how cool it is to be in such a beautiful country muchless live here as well. For me it showed me that there is so much more to see. And also helps me see that though  i miss my home i am seeing and doing things here that i cannot do there.