Apparently not relaxed enough

As I noted in an earlier entry, with each passing day I'm becoming more relaxed. However, according to Argentine standards, I still have progress to make.

To make a long story short, my family decided to take a raft trip. We were told to meet at 9:30 a.m. and that the drive to the put in would be 2 hours. After the approximately 13 stops... sometimes just for a smoke, sometimes to buy food for the asado (BBQ) following the raft trip, somtimes to pick up a guide, sometimes to drop the guide's kid off at his grandparent's house... we didn't actually start the raft trip until 5 p.m. (no exageration). After the first two hours of slight annoyance, we remembered we were indeed in Latin America and we ought just to go with it. We sipped the mate when offered and hung out in the sun while waiting. The day turned out to be very enjoyable. The rafting was great fun, the people we met were extremely nice, the asado was especially tasty and the flavor of rural Patagonia was calming. One more lesson in my life long goal of learning how to relax.