Partying in Mendoza

Wes and Dan are having fun in Mendoza. Yesterday they spent the day walking around the city. They had a light lunch at a cafe. They are enjoying the warm weather. When they got back to the hotel they saw some more climbers from Aconcagua. Hans and Avred who are Dutch and Daniel who is Canadian. They all went out to a really nice restaurant called The Winery. They also met up with another group of climbers who were French Canadian. Apparently the group had a really good time since they didn't get back to the hotel until 7:00 this morning! They hung out at the restaurant until 3:00 am and then went to an Irish Pub where Daniel knew the owner. They stayed there until 6:00 am and then went back to the hotel. They celebrated their climb with cigars and scotch. There was a wine steward at the restaurant named Carlos (who looked like Elton John) who helped them out for about two hours picking out the wine for each course.

Today the guys didn't get up until about 12:30 pm. Hans and Avred stayed in Wes and Dan's room and slept on the floor. Wes, Hans and Avred went out to lunch and had some ice cream. Dan stayed at the hotel and relaxed. Wes just ran into Billy (one of the guides from their Denali 2008 trip). Billy is guiding for RMI and he is starting his climb tomorrow.

Dan and Wes are going to meet up with Hans, Avred and Daniel in about 30 minutes to go out to dinner. However, they are not planning on making it quite as late a night as last night. They have to get some sleep and get ready to catch their flight home tomorrow night.