Passing through 3 countries today

Paraguay is pretty sweet. Lori has the best friends in Paraguay to visit, since Natalia is writing a guidebook for Paraguay and Alex just had finals from grad school, so he is currently available to show us around. Plus, Natalia{s parents have a nice apartment we are staying at and a weekend house in this adorable small town. On the way to this town yesterday there was a strawberry festival. Strawberries with cream is pretty sweet. We also went to a place that had breakfast feast for the equivalent of $3 each. It{s semi-tropical and warm with lots of really pretty flowers and is pretty laid back.

Got to Puerto Iguazu today. I took the bus from Asuncion to Ciudad del Este, and I was going to take the bus from Ciudad del Este to Puerto Iguazu but then it doesn{t seem to run very often, or at all on Sundays, so I had to take a really expensive taxi ride and talk my way out of Brazil, since I didn{t want to get a visa just to drive through the country for 10 minutes. Here, you have to go from Paraguay to Brazil to Argentina. I{ve heard there{s a boat that goes direct, but there was no information about it here. And I doubt it runs on Sundays.

I{m staying at this really nice hostel, Tombas Posada y Hostel, or something like that, with hammocks and a small pool and a kitchen and really nice people, but I should probably stop hogging the free internet.