Bariloche, Argentina's Winter Paridise

One of the senior missionary couple has said, "after the Garden of Eden, God made Bariloche."  It is a beautiful Andes mountain village surrounded by seven beautiful lakes and of course the Andes.  Not everyone has the good fortune to be able to visit so much of their mission.  Joan and I were in charge of coordinating the yearly Mission Presidents' Seminar.  It is a combination of three days of intense training couple with an opportunity for the mission presidents and their wives to get away from the 24/7 grind of being the "camp director" for 200+ missionaries.  Several things came together (including an amazing deal at the hotel) to allow us to hold it in Bariloche.  A ski resort and 2nd most popular tourist spot in Argentina.  It was off season and it was held Monday through Thursday morning - so part of the reason for the deal at the Hotel Lloa Lloa.  There are so many beautiful pictures I will put up a couple of posts on this.  One of more the  Seminar later.

here are the Mission Pres and their wives on a lookout.
Behind them is the hotel we stayed at with a couple of the
lakes in the foreground.  I had climbed up on the cliff to take this

From our hotel room window

Trying to catch the sun setting

with another senior couple. The Knapps were doing the translation
for the wives that did not speak Spanish.

there are several islands and one has a tree only found on it
and another a type of hibernating animal that stores
his winter food supply in his tail

Bariloche was settled by northern Europeans
and there food is typical of that reagon,
as lamb and trout and of course chocolate.

Another chocolate store

Its hard to see but that is the Andes over our shoulders

Using my telephoto I got a picture of the hotel from the
look out