The day that lasts 36 hours

We made it!!!! Anna and I are successfully in Rio, waiting for Amy´s arrival in the next hour. After a 4am start to drive to Sydney, we had an uneventful 13 hour flight to Buneos Aires. Only issue was that neither of us slept much. Our first glimpse of the snow capped Andes mountains was extremely exciting, at some point we will post a photo - yes we took a photo out the plane window.

Buneos Aires airport is particularly unexciting and small, so we snoozed for a couple of hours to our connecting flight. We did have a great ham, cheese and tomato toasted bagette before the flight which was a good idea as the food on Aerolineus Argentinas is not up to Qantas standards. But finally we were over Rio!

We arrived, had a great (somewhat cute) taxi driver (it is fantastic how they bid for our custom - $55 Roias) and got to the hostel. It is pretty basic but fine. Having a shower was WONDERFUL! We have managed to use an ATM (although Anna forgot her pin number - all fixed) and buy water and bananas so won´t starve before breakfast.

We are about to head back to the airport to pick up Amy then to bed. Sleeping pills are on hand but after a day lasting 36 hours, we won´t take long to go to sleep.