Our next stop was 'the end of the world’. We took a 16 hour bus ride to get there and made friends with three little kids on the bus but they nearly wore us out. They were very cute though. Their mom was moving them from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia and wow, she is amazing cause I don’t know how she traveled all that way by herself with three kids ages 5, 3, and 2 and then she was pregnant on top of it! The kids were super cute and we tried to learn some Spanish from them. The five-year old girl loved Jessica and ran her ear off even though Jessica had no clue what she was saying. Ha ha it was funny. Awe cute little kiddies, but we were excited to finally arrive at the southern most city in the world! It was beautiful there.
We went on a boat ride to some islands and saw seals swimming right next to our boat, they were so cute… they just poke their little heads out of the water and look at us with curiosity. I love them. I was so sad we didn’t get to see penguins L they had migrated North to Brazil about two weeks before we got there. Who would have thought they migrate to where it is warmer, they are penguins! I thought they would have gone more south, but nope, they headed north, crazy. We did see some birds which look like penguins if you’re far enough away ;)
NW of Iguazu we stopped in Salta, Argentina. The city was full of the coolest cacti I had ever seen. We ran into the same friends we had hiked with in Patagonia and went on a horse-back riding trek with them. It’s nice because you just keep running into the same travelers in the next city and it feels like you have friends all over the country! Our horse trek was really fun, it was on this little ranch about ½ hour outside of the city and up into the mountains. My horse was a little crazy… he kept trying to bite my leg! I had to show him who was boss and he finally stopped. Then we got to run the horses (sorry Als I know you would have loved it...I thought about you!). It was a bit scary… I thought I was going to fall off. Ha ha, I didn’t think I liked horse-back riding that much until now. It was a blast!
At the ranch I learned how to lasso the skull. I was pretty excited about it cause it was really hard at first. But yeah, i love learning random skills! 
