So after admiring our room and the white snowy scenes outside, we decided to go walk about the town and find some lunch.
We stepped outside and immediately realised that despite our superior snow weather boots, our experience in navigating snowy icy sidewalks is somewhat lacking.
Lesson - white dry powder good, clear shiny ice bad.
Now while the cold snowy weather is very romantic from the window seat in the warm hotel room, some of the romance cools outside where you can't hold hands in case you slip and pull both down, you can't walk side by side because it is easier to walk in each others footsteps, you can't hear each other because you are so bundled up and you can't turn your neck because the keep warm layers are tight. But we still got a few nice photos of the scenery. We then decided to pop into he supermarket and get some lunch snacks and make our way to the pick up point for the bus to the Glariarium. After back tracking and walking around the block we found the bus. (I slipped on the ice on the way and bruised my bum)
The Glaciarium was an excellent choice for our first day in EC because it gave a very extensive and detailed explanation on the science of glaciers and the history of the area and other glaciology topics. Now today and tomorrow while we visit the actual glaciers, we can appreciate what the tour guide is telling us. Knowledge is power!
We took the bus back to the town and we trooped back to our wam hotel room.
Last night we tried a delicacy of the area which was trout and mash potato. Mmmm good.
This morning we are waiting for our tour operator to collect us and we are going on to the Lago Argentina. Sounds fun, but cold wet fun brrrr...
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