I woke up early and started to try and figure out if we could get anything to eat today despite everyone saying the restuarants and supermarkets were closed we suceeded! I went to pick up my bag at the youth hostel that had lost our reservation but didn’t make it that far as there was a corner store open. So I purchased a few eggs, coffee, juice, a tomotoe and headed back to the hostel to cook up a breakfast. Rob was up so we had two eggs each (which is such a luxury after KEP) fried with some bread and 1/2 a tomotoe each (again very tasty!).

Time for me to talk to my family in Bermuda who sent me some great pictures of the kids enjoying their presents. I sent them King Edward Point BAS hoodies and some other little presents.

We then headed out to see if we could find a place for Christmas lunch. The hostel with my bag was doing a christmas lunch but wouldn’t let anyone outside the hostel eat there so we jumped on the metro and headed for the park which has the zoo and Virgin Mary. We bought some grapes and banannas from a street stall and gorged ourselves they were so very tasty. Rob tried to use the payphones to call home to no avail – Skype really has changed the way you can communicate.

So we walked in the searing heat up the hill to the summit with the Virgin Mary and a nativity scene.
Rob wondered who the guy was lying behind the three wise men and the cow. I decided it was a shephard who had passed out from the heat!

This is me looking and feeling like a lobster today I thought I was going to die of heat not very christmassy. Hopefully this will not be the case in Argentina in two weeks when I start climbing Aconcaqua! We sat on the steps at the foot of the Virgin Mary and burn our bums on the rock as it was that hot.

My arm isn’t long enough for good self portraits so the Virgin Mary is missing her head. I think this holiday would be better in black and white so I didn’t look so bright lobster red in all the photos. Next stop was a restuarant for dinner which was quite expensive for steak, chips and salad but it was good food. Back to the hostel for talking to friends and family then a relaxing evening and early to bed. Oh and of course listening to the Queen’s speech online.

Hope you all had a wonderful day with tasty food and the presents you wanted.