The night before last, we enjoyed an early birthday dinner for Andy outside on the water at the nicest restaurant in town. The service was incredible with several servers coming to the table to offer various things. The food cannot be put into words on paper. Absolutely wonderful. Andy enjoyed his Bife Chorizo and I some Patagonian Spider Crab. Definatley a highlight. The bill was perhaps the best part. A full three course dinner and drinks for under US $80. Nothing like it in Seattle.
We woke up in the morning and went to the zoo and city parks. It was a monkey of a zoo. Animals obviously have taken a beating from years of the small children throwing peanuts and various food articles at them constantly. We did discover an Argentinian mystery animal- half rabbit, half dog, some cat, with the ears of a lynx.....not sure what to think of it, but they were just running around free. Hopefully we can get those pictures loaded soon.
It finally rained last night as we came home from Mr. Tengo. It was an epic journey of tango dancers, cheap wine and not so friendly americans from New York, conviently sitting at our group table. The show was a great performance in a huge theatre a little outside the city. The performance hall offered a van service that picked up personas from their hotels as well as the return. The show was going great until the end of the night when the check came. The two NewYorkers saw the bill was 80 pesos, but they presumed that it was in American currency. they freaked out. And it took 1o minutes of waiter-newyorker arguing to resolve the situation. During this, the neworkers made comments like, "they don´t speak english to us" and "I did not like the show so I am not payin!" Because of Annika´s wonderful ability to speak spanish and my ability to keep my mouth shut, we blended in with everyone while singing ¨DONT CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA!¨ and did not have to give oursleves away as americanas.
Damn Americans.
Today we went to the cementary. This is the biggest attraction in Buneos Aires. The graveyard is similar to a samll city. Amazing! The tall tombs and statues of generals, poets and polticiains. I have been to the New Orleans graveyard which is famous at home, but this blows that out of the water. And the really creepy part about this was not the thousands of dead people a foot away from you, while you are staring at their caskets, it was the gatos! All of these decreped cats roaming around the cementary, gaurding the dead. In a city were one has not seen a cat, and then to eneter into the land of the dead to see these things just lying around is really weird. I asked a lady later about that and she said that the guards feed them.
We woke up in the morning and went to the zoo and city parks. It was a monkey of a zoo. Animals obviously have taken a beating from years of the small children throwing peanuts and various food articles at them constantly. We did discover an Argentinian mystery animal- half rabbit, half dog, some cat, with the ears of a lynx.....not sure what to think of it, but they were just running around free. Hopefully we can get those pictures loaded soon.
It finally rained last night as we came home from Mr. Tengo. It was an epic journey of tango dancers, cheap wine and not so friendly americans from New York, conviently sitting at our group table. The show was a great performance in a huge theatre a little outside the city. The performance hall offered a van service that picked up personas from their hotels as well as the return. The show was going great until the end of the night when the check came. The two NewYorkers saw the bill was 80 pesos, but they presumed that it was in American currency. they freaked out. And it took 1o minutes of waiter-newyorker arguing to resolve the situation. During this, the neworkers made comments like, "they don´t speak english to us" and "I did not like the show so I am not payin!" Because of Annika´s wonderful ability to speak spanish and my ability to keep my mouth shut, we blended in with everyone while singing ¨DONT CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA!¨ and did not have to give oursleves away as americanas.
Damn Americans.
Today we went to the cementary. This is the biggest attraction in Buneos Aires. The graveyard is similar to a samll city. Amazing! The tall tombs and statues of generals, poets and polticiains. I have been to the New Orleans graveyard which is famous at home, but this blows that out of the water. And the really creepy part about this was not the thousands of dead people a foot away from you, while you are staring at their caskets, it was the gatos! All of these decreped cats roaming around the cementary, gaurding the dead. In a city were one has not seen a cat, and then to eneter into the land of the dead to see these things just lying around is really weird. I asked a lady later about that and she said that the guards feed them.
Have you every seen Sleepwalkers by Stephen King?
We´re heading South today on bus to Rio Gallegos and then onwards to the tip of the world..... 40 hours in total - we´ll let you know how that goes!!!
2 comments:
Damn americans... I know exactly what you mean. ahaha they are just so stupid when they travel.
Try living in France for 10 MONTHS and the dumb-American (and jerko-English!) stories will be flowing like steam out your ears ;) We are lucky to be a few of those who are aware of ourselves in foreign countries...
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