Argentina or Bust!!

So Jess and I made plans a long time ago to visit Argentina for a week from August 28th to July 4th. You may, however, notice that today is the 29th and yet I am still in Santiago. Sadly, we planned to take a bus to Córdoba, Argentina, spend a few days there, bus down to Buenos Aires and then fly back to Santiago (to save a little dinero.) UNFORTUNATELY what we weren't told is that the mountain pass closes all the time between Chile and Argentina and guess what- a snow storm rolled in Wednesday night. Terrible luck! Especially because you'll notice how nice it has been all week (I wore shorts to the Equality March!!!) So yesterday Jess got to the train station at 7:30AM (as a side story, I would have missed the bus yesterday anyway because my alarm didn't go off and I didn't wake up til 8:30.. problematic when you were trying to make an 8AM bus. But it didn't turn out to be an issue.)  They told Jess that it was completely closed and we should try back tomorrow. Jess also went to the airport to see about stand by flights (pretty much nothing works online in this country) and the cheapest we could find was around $500, clearly out of the picture.
 So this morning we woke up at 6AM and went back to the train station only to find that, again, the pass was closed. Super disappointing and also frustrating because it seems, at least in the Santiago bus terminal, that nobody has any idea what is going on. We asked several people and we got answers ranging from "Yes definitely try again tomorrow." to "Well its looking like Monday or Tuesday at the earliest." We adopted the motto "we can trust nobody but eachother!!" haha.
So the plan now is that, LUCKILY, we found a company organizing a bus that is less direct and more pricey, but that leaves tonight that goes through a pass farther south. We figured this was our best bet since we, nor anyone else it seems, have any idea about when the pass will open. Fortunately I have experience with these kinds of things (Colorado, Utah;) Jess, on the other hand, seems a little bit frazzled, haha. But I am doing good, just cruising along for now. We'll see how I feel at the end of this long bus ride though!