munchhaussen by proxy

spent 23 hours 45 minutes on a bus since last writing. there´s not much to say about that - we got on and got off it and slept and ate cheese sandwiches and a small child spoke to us, then a man spoke to us, we didn´t understand them much. we played the a-z of fatal diseases to pass the time, and the first name last name game which we have called cheese cat.
sao paolo was slightly stressful as we had to get from one bus station to another on the underground in only an hour or we´d miss our night bus. not the best way to see one of the biggest cities in the world (17 million people...). some people said they´d help us but i was convinced that actually they wanted to kill us for our jewellery, so made abi and laura ignore them. they owe me big time.
so we got our passports stamped, that was exciting, and people say hola now instead of whatever they say in portuguese for hello. we went to the iguazu falls, which is our raison d´etre in iguazu after all. they are very big waterfalls, 2nd largest after victoria falls in africa. basically water falls over a cliff, obeying the laws of gravity, and people take photos of it. it´s pretty big. we got a bit splashed with water. there were lots of lovely butterflies, one of them was called Bert and he followed us to the bus stop. we took some photos of him. abi was distressed at the thought of mosquitos - iguazu supposedly malaria central - but we didn´t see any. she is going to camp out under her mosquito net tonight and disguise herself.
we went out just now for dinner, and for the equivalent of 11pounds a head, we had wine, bread, steaks, tortilla, vegetables, chips, mashed potatoes, and a piece of cheese cake (with 3 spoons). we like argentina.
big thunder storm most of the evening. we had a guiness in a pub next to our hostel. sorry, not very argentinian, and we promised to make up for the cake and pizza fiasco in brazil....
everyone is very friendly here. perhaps it´s because we are spending our money but we think they are just naturally very nice. to be continued from buenos aires.
question of the day: what type of animal is a coati, we think we saw one.