Twenty two days and a wake up, as we used to say in the Army. Christmas shopping and mailing, party preparation and attendance all seem to confuse our mission of getting ready for the Argentina trip. What is a little odd is that for the 6 months we will spend in Argentina we haven't done much of our usual trip planning nor have begun to pack. We have the reservations at the school for 12 weeks, our home stay and we have a timeshare condominium reserved for one week in April. While we have developed a whole list of places to see and visit like the Iguazu waterfalls, the colonial cities of the NW, the Mendoza wineries in the Andes, Patagonia, glaciers and Ushuaia, the southern most city in the world,we aren't making any more detailed plans because we aren't sure how well we will do with the language school. We are committed to some level of success learning Spanish. So when and at what pace we do the touring will be determined as we go. Through friends that have gone to Buenos Aires before us we have found an excellent travel agent to work with for these other parts of the adventure.

Anyway, the house sitters are coming on the 29th. We have found homes for the cars with neighborhood garages. The credit card companies are warned. Twenty two and a wake up!