Beunos Aires

Hey,

We are here in the big city now, not quite like anything else we've been doing this trip. Our overnight bus ride was pretty posh, traveled through some pretty desolate country on the way. For dinner along with our ham and cheese we actually saw some real food of steak and potatoes plus one lonely carrot (maybe for color) and some wine, I'm telling you they really know how to take care of you on these buses....
We got into the city super early, our bus arrived 2 hours early, weird. We managed to ditch our luggage at our hostel at 6 in the morning (only 1 more transfer of all our bags, yeah!) and we hit the streets and waited for the sun to come up. After our breakfast we walked on over to the Recolata district to find the city of the Dead. What a cool cemetary, the masoleums and ironwork and stained glass was pretty interesting. Found Evita Peron's resting spot along with many others. Then it was off to hit the markets, I think Jen was getting tired of my insistence of going to see all of the booths, but I love checking this kind of thing out. We wandered the streets some more, tried to see some tango but our bad timing interfered and we missed it by minutes twice. Back to our hostel, catch up with some other fellow travelers, and Jen is off to her usual early bed time, but not me. Go out with the welsh ladies for some awesome dinner of steak, muy bueno! They serve you these lemon shots after dinner, and keep feeding these shots to us, very dangerous. It's a sunday night, so the city is a bit sleepy, will have to wait to see what tomorrow is like...

2nd day in the city
Craziness, we go out and check out the palace Rosada, the city isn't at all sleepy today! You have to fight to just walk on the sidewalks or stay in the flow of traffic, it is very busy... Then we check out Florida street, and that is almost a mistake, by the time we got off of there both Jen and I are over fighting the crowds and end up just going back to the hostel to relax. Later we go out for a tango show at Cafe Tortinos, it was really good music, the dancers were excellent, they just didn't dance quite enough. Head back and end up going out later (minus Jen of the early bed time) with some English folk from our hostel to a bar in the San Telmo district. The band was good, it's funny to hear an argentine band cover american classics though. Lot's of good enthusiasm though, good desserts, and good times. I might not of made it out to a club while down here, but did get to check out a little bit of night life, maybe it was for the best that it happened that way.