Day 11, 12, 13 ...

Coming down from the mountain, resting and packing up, Bram's now on his last stretch to Mendoza, arriving tonight! Tim's eagerly looking forward to meet up again, and I'm sure the Argentina steak and beer will taste like heaven. Had an sms from Tim yesterday, confirming that Bram's on his way and that he's enjoying Mendoza and its surroundings. They'll have plenty to talk about. Tomorrow they have a full day together, and if I got the dates right, they have a party evening planned with the expedition guys. Monday Tim flies back to Amsterdam and his family, Bram's still got another two days to discover Mendoza. He's visiting some crazy guy owning a wine estate, he got the address from the restaurant where Bram did the plaster work this summer, with his friend Rini, in New York. http://irvingmill.com/ Pretty cool and fancy restaurant, owned by Norma's brother (Norma is married to Rini and together they run the www.montautre.com in the Limousin, a lovely place worthwhiule visiting!!) Irving Mill serves this wine from this Mendoza vineyard and this guys' supposedly a real original well worth visiting. Hopefully Bram brings a bottle with him home to celebrate the summit, what could be better than a local wine??

I'm hoping for Bram to give me a call tonight, or at least tomorrow, it's been more than two weeks now since I had personally word from him (that was the phone call from the bank in Mendoza...).

Now time for a haircut, I have Swedish Anna-Lena (Bram's climbing pal's Tompa's wife) who I visit when I come here... At least I know what I get, the french hairdressers in the local village of Grillon and surroundings... hmmmm kind of old fashioned, you know where the ladies go to get their hair set on saturday morning. Chamonix is a real place and you get a decent haircut too!! Seb's also going under the scissors...

Thanks all of you for all the great postings...It's been heart warming to read them!
I wonder where their next adventures go? Bram's got Antarctica, Mt McKinley and Cho Oyu on his list... The latter is 8201m and the sixth highest mountain in the world.

We'll stay in touch... Over and out from Jenny and the children in Chamonix, next posting Bram will write himself!

Carpe Diem
Jenny