Last Day in Mendoza (Sun 3/28)

Stats:
- 1 "tv festival"
- 2 workouts (1 each)
- farewell dinner in Argentina

Well, perhaps it was all the meat for dinner or perhaps it was all the Malbec drinking that caught up with us, but Arn slept until 9:15am!  I slept until 9:30am!! It was totally crazy. We had a late breakfast and went for a workout. Arn gave up in the gym and suffered a run in the heat. Having "survived" my first round of weight lifting, I went back for round two. 

We headed back to the internet cafe. Arn did research on Valparaiso while I researched lodging options for a future visit to Santa Barbara with our friends, Doug and Marjorie. Lunch was enjoyed at Subway. See --- I wasn't kidding. After all the meat last night, we went of the Jared diet for lunch. We do this all the time in Seattle. If either of us feels like the numbers on the scale have gone bad, we declare "Subway diet" and we eat lunches at Subway. We are big believers in no starchy carbs for dinner, Subway for lunch, and exerise as the strategy for lower the numbers on the scale. 

Our afternoon was a "television fesitval".  Using our iTouch, wifi, and our Slingbox in Seattle, we enjoyed several hours of tv from our DVR at home. We watched episodes of 24 and Two and Half Men. 

Our last dinner in Argentina was enjoyed at a place called, "Anna's Bistro".  We sat outside in a garden so lush that one would have thought we were in the tropicals. There were banana trees (confirmed by the presense of bananas), hybiscus in full bloom, and palm trees.  Given that tomorrow we return to Chile, we decided to enjoy one last Argentian dinner. Arn had another steak. I had pork tenderloin with a raspberry sauce and grilled fruit. And of course, we tried another new malbec. On the way back to hotel, Arn stopped for an ice cream cone --- Dulce de leche con brownies. It was a sweet ending to a good time in Mendoza. It is a bit sad to know we are leaving Argentina. This year was our second visit to Argentina. We are leaving having seen everything that held curiousity for us.  We are feeling satisfied and satiated with out experience.   So tomorrow, we will be back to enjoying seafood and Chilean wines.