Iguazu Day 1-The Arrival

So I want to start by saying that the entire trip was awesome and amazing and so incredibly fun that I would not change a thing. We laughed and had adventures every day, the guides were great, the buses all arrived and brought us where we needed to be for each of our trips, the restaurants were good...nothing to complain about! Awesome!
Day 1: Wake up at 5, get into cab, arrive at the airport around 6:30 for flight at 7:50. Go through gate and take a shuttle roughly 75 feet to the plane where we are let off and board the shuttle. 9:30 arrive at the airport and are met by our friendly driver. Taken to hotel Orquideas Palace, or as we renamed it, Giant Scary Bug Central! We had so many bugs in our hallway it was crazy, but most were just big moths and beetles, nothing dangerous. The rooms were really nice, with AC, very important for Iguazu which is very hot and humid. We were sweating pretty much nonstop for the three days we were there. Well, by about 11 we decided to get lunch and explore town. We heard about a bus that runs into town every half hour so we headed out to catch it, and were immediately accosted by a taxi driver who was insistent on taking us into town. We wanted to take the bus, and Levi and I, who were lagging behind, were approached by another taxi driver who the first one called to to tell him "son baratas!" (they're cheap!) so we were left to take the bus, but not before a good recommendation for lunch, which we noted and hopped onto the bus into town. After a slight detour into one of the nearby suburbs we rode into and almost through town. I finaly looked back at Dad to tell him I think we had just gone through town, so we hopped off the bus. He said "I was looking for the town square!" so we all started looking around for street names to find ourselves on the map. A nice lady came over and luckily was frm the tourist board, and said, uh, we were IN the town square. Basically, Iguazu is tiny and we just saw it as we drove through. So we decided to find lunch then head for a walk around town. We found a place offering a 15 peso lunch deal which included about 7 different salads, 6 meats and a drink, per person! It was wild and a realy good lunch.
We then headed to the 3 points, where 3 rivers meet and from there you can see Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. We decided to walk down, which was just so hot I can't even describe it, but we were all drenched and really excited to find a popsicle vendor at the end of the walk. The view was really cool and we took some pictures etc. to verify we were there!
Next came ride home and siesta, followed by a couple hours of rigorous ping pong. It was Levi's first real game, keeping points and everything. It was really fun, though played in a game room about 100 degrees with 100 percent humidity! Then we went in for drinks followed by dinner and then bed. We loved our waiter, who we named Timothy, who had "gummy hands" which were injured trying to open a beer, and snarfed the peanuts we asked for while behind the counter before bringing us the next round. He was a riot!

Me and Ian at the 3 points

One of the unofficial guests found in our hotel At the start of our trek to the 3 points. We're smiling now...we didn't know what was coming!
The 3 points-to the left, Paraguay, to the right, Brazil
The hotel, home of bugs, Timothy, ping pong and the pool!