its still the weekend!

I am writing from another hostel in Cordoba. Yep! We are still here until tomorrow night! We only booked our other hostel for the first two nights hoping that we would find other cool places to stay, but since its a holiday weekend we were lucky to get a place at all! This place is called Aldea hostel. Its pretty open and big and the room fits exactly the eight of us.
We have eaten in for almost all our evening meals. The first two nights we had our own parrillas, or grills, on the roof of our first hostel. We cooked steak and veggies likes peppers, onions, eggplant, squash and accompanied it with some nice malbec and fresh baked bread. It was about 8 pesos each... meaning less than three dollars. What thrifty little backpackers we have become. It was good times and delicious food. Two days ago a group of us went to Villa Carlos Paz which is about an hour minibus ride away from the city. It was pretty small and not too crowded during the day but we found our adventure. We rode horses on a trail up a mountain which overlooked the town and the river flowing through it. Once we got back down, we ascended the adjacent hill by ski lift. Up at the top there wasnt too much to do. We were sooooooo excited to take what they called the aero tren. From the pictures it looked like a monorail or rollercoaster. Well, it went about 8 mph for about 300 feet. yay! Then we arrived at our destination which we named candy mountain because it was one store with a playhouse that looked like candy and some lollipops. yay! A few people went zip lining, but other than that it was neat and pretty but nothing spectacular. Nonetheless, we made it fun! There were more stray dogs in Carlos Paz than Ive seen in a while. One of them adopted us for a good like 2 miles through some neighborhoods and even waited across the street for 20 minutes as we stopped to look at some other dogs at a pet store. Oh Nugget (dogs given name).
Yesterday we took another minibus as our 8 person group to a place called Tanti. Basically, we rode the same bus as the previous day, but just stay on as it went along through more shanty towns and deserted areas. We were recommended this little town by someone who worked at our first hostel. She said there was a river and waterfalls and nice hiking so we were all pretty pumped... until we saw that we were driving through shanty towns and deserted areas. mah. oh well. We ate when we got there at one of like two restaurants that were open in this mile stretch of town and im pretty sure my pasta was cooked for about 2 minutes. Al dente right? Im making this sound like we had a horrible time but, although we never got what we expected, it was a good time. Yeah, there was one 40 ft waterfall and a small river that likened more to a creek, but we made our fun climbing boulders around this area on what Im pretty sure was privately owned land. Dont worry, we found the spot to crawl over where the barbed wire was already matted down.
Okay, there was quick recap of my past couple days. Sorry it wasnt as flowerfully written as you may like. Im off to nap on my foam pad on my rickety metal bunk bed frame.