Hi folks! Another quick update as we head off on our final adventure before heading home (!) in less than two weeks. We’re in Guayaquil, Ecuador right now, and tomorrow we’ll be heading out to the Galapagos Islands for eight days (that is, assuming Laura’s appendix doesn’t stage a last-minute coup as mine did right before we were originally supposed to hit the Galapagos in November). We’ll be totally offline for the next week, but we’re planning to post a full report on our three amazing weeks in Patagonia as soon as we get back. With more than 1,800 photos to sort through (good lord) and so many great hikes and adventures to write about, it’s proving to be a slightly bigger job than we initially anticipated.

In the mean time, though, we wanted to wish everyone a slightly belated Happy New Year! We spent our New Year’s Eve at a fancy-schmancy tango show and all-night party at one of the hotels in Buenos Aires. We’ve posted a few photos and videos below, mostly to remind everyone what we look like when we wear something other than the oh-so-sexy trekking clothes and trail-runners that have been our constant companions for the last year. The party was a lot of fun, and we even managed to do the impossible and stay up until sunrise. But like all of the other holidays we’ve spent away from home this year, it couldn’t quite compete with a NYE spent with our family and friends. In case we haven’t mentioned it before (have we? :), we are really looking forward to being home.

That’s all for now… we have some blue-footed boobies to go track down. Hasta luego!

Laura couldn’t wait to “be a girl again” (as she put it) in these newly purchased pink heels.

Hey, the suit may have been rented and the dress may not have met BA’s “prostitute chic” fashion standards, but at least we didn’t have on convertible pants!

The swanky tango cabaret at the Faena Hotel in Buenos Aires

Enjoying the first of many, MANY glasses of champagne

Our tango show was incredible, almost Broadway quality, and very sexy.

The outdoor pool where we did our midnight countdown and danced ‘til dawn

Fancy Frazier on his very fancy chair

Naughty girl in the hat she temporarily “borrowed” from another party patron