Cordoba--what up?!?

As you can probably tell from the title of this blog, we have reached the promise land and it´s called Cordoba--finally. Because it´s Semana Santa, in addition to all of the backpackers traveling, it seems like everyone in Argentina is on vacation. This makes getting buses at rooms at the hostels all the more difficult. But let me back up a bit...
Sophie and I decided to leave Buenos Aires once and for all and continue our journey north. Our next stop was Puerto Iguazu home of the incredibly Iguazu falls. It was an 18 hour bus ride to get there and both our chairs were broken, plus the air conditioning was on full blast the entire time, but we made it. As I said before it is beautiful and tropical looking without all the humidity. And the falls are incredible. You can spend days visiting them, there´s just so much to see. But we only stayed one day. We met up with our friend Aviv at the falls and had a good time exploring the area and swimming in the water. I would hav liked to stay another day tovisit the falls form the Brazilian side, but we needed to get going, plus we couldn´t get visas to enter Brazil anyway. But we´ve heard that the Argentinian side is better anyway.
The next day we left to go to Cordoba, but when we got to the bus station, they informed us that there were no direct busses and they could only get us to a town near by called Santa Fe. They promised that we would find a bus from there to Cordoba. WRONG. When we got to Santa Fe the next morning at 6 am we found out that they didn´t have any buses to Cordoba available until the next day. We scrambled to get a hostel for the night and then wandered about Santa Fe a bit. Not much to see there and we were happy to leave. After checking out we still had to wait 3 hours in the bus station before our bus left. So we did. Finally we made it to Cordoba-5 hours later and made our way to the hostel. When we got there they informed us that they had only one bed left. They offered to call other hostels around town but they were all full. Just as we were beginning to panic the hostel told us that in fact they actually did have some beds available, I didn´t really understand what changed. So we luckily got some beds with our own private bathroom for pretty cheap, so that was really, really lucky. Our Israeli friends, who had arrived early that morning could only find a hostel that would let them set up their tents on the roof. And last night there was a thunder storm in Cordoba, so that sucks. Today it´s still raining so i didn´t really feel much like going outside. Basically just been hanging out in the hostel. Tomorrow, hopefully it will get nicer. At least it´s not hot. Very Seattle like.
Alright, people are waiting for the computer.

love,
Gabi