A couple of days in La Pampa

For Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, my family and I (my mom made me write that) went to La Pampa, the grassy plains of Argentina with cowboys and cows and horses, and a ton of mosquitos. We stayed at an estancia, which you already know about from reading my other blog post from Tierra del Fuego. On the first day, we got introduced and then we went swimming in a pool that had not been cleaned out for a while so it had a ton of waterbugs in it, and other bugs like mosquitoes and Japanese beetles. Also, they served us very nice dinners, like freshly-caught fish from the lake right next to the estancia. The lake was one of the causes of the mosquitoes, which there were swarms of.

The next day, in the morning, I did horseback riding. I was having fun walking around and learning the horse commands. But then we went on a path into the forest, and there I started getting super allergic to the horse. I was having trouble breathing, I had hives, and to top it all off, I had mosquito bites. At the end, I ended up having to take two adult benadryl pills (and I didn't even fall asleep).

Then I tried to go fishing from a canoe, but I was completely unsuccessful. I also took another few swims in the pool, which had been cleaned out, so it had a few huge bugs but otherwise it was fine. The meals were of pasta with a really nice pink sauce.

On the long bus home, we could see a few gauchos (Argentine cowboys) and a lot of cows, but mostly grass. Then the bus had to stop to get gas, and we went into the little store to go to the bathroom. I think it was right next to a non-moving pool of water, because covering the walls and inside of the bathrooms were mosquitoes everywhere. I went to the bathroom for one minute, and I came out with 3 mosquito bites, and I killed around 10.

So that is our final vacation in Argentina, that wasn't somewhere in Buenos Aires. We are leaving in 5 days, and my birthday is tomorrow so I am excited. I am turning 11. I am having a party on Saturday, that is half birthday party and half going-away party. So this is probably one of the last posts I will be doing on this blog before I am going back to the United States. I'm sort of sad and super happy about going back to America.