Buenos Aires, Día 10! Eco Reserves and Transformers!
Well hello all! I know, I’m a couple days late getting these updates up, but sometimes, getting to the internet is more difficult than expected, especially when you’re actually busy all day!
Well, Day nine was definitely an interesting day. I met up with Thomas and Bridget at Plaza de Mayo. It’s where the Pink House is…where their president used to live. How funny, we have the White House, they have the Casa Rosada. But now it just houses government offices, not their president…who is a woman for those of you who don’t know world happenings. =) I arrived there first, and just sat on a bench and took pictures of my surroundings. It was a lovely day, not too cold and definitely not too hot. Now, as you will see by some of my pictures, there are quite a bit of pigeons in B.A…basically everywhere you go, you are bound to see a pigeon or two. Well, today was no different. However, I’m sitting in this park, next to a fountain, minding my own business, when this older lady comes and sits down a few feet away from me…and she starts throwing bread crumbs on the ground. Before I knew it, swarms of pigeons were flying overhead attacking the ground for the bread! And when I say swarms, oh yes, I mean swarms! Hundreds of these pigeons are flying right over my head, it was windy there were so many flying around me! I was a bit scared at first, mainly because I did not feel like getting pooped on. And luckily enough, I didn’t! Thomas had gotten there by then, so he took a picture of me by all these pigeons. It was pretty cool.
Well, Bridget met up with us and we went walking down Calle Florida again. Thomas wanted to show us this mall he found in the midst of it. Sure enough, he had discovered a huge mall, definitely bigger than our mall in Shawnee, and it was completely hidden amongst all the buildings of the street! I was amazing. There’s just a normal double door opening and you walk in and it’s like…well, a mall should be, and it’s really pretty (I took a picture, no worries, ha ha). We grabbed our lunch, Thomas had this icky mashed pumpkin (he liked it though) and I was lame and got a burger (I know! Lame!)
Afterwards, we headed to the destination of the day: The National Ecological Reserve! I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t what we got. =) It was basically a wilderness, where there were supposedly thousands of types of birds; we saw maybe 5, ha ha. I did enjoy it, mainly because it was a break away from the city. We were really in the midst of this man-made nature. There were large paths to walk down, and along the sides the grass was tall, along with various types of trees. It’d be a great place to go running/biking/ picnicking etc. It was really nice, although by the time we were at the back of it, it was pretty chilly. But the walking was keeping us warm. We did get to see the ocean! Well, the Rio de la Plata, but it connects to the ocean which is enough, right? The “beach” was quite interesting. It is definitely not a place for swimming, even in the warm months. There was plenty of sand, and rocks, but there was also…tile? And other types of man made stones. It was kind of odd, as if people threw out their old kitchen counters and they somehow ended up on the beach! But it was fun, and of course, I took photos. =)
After the few hours we spent walking around in there (you can’t get anywhere without walking LONG distances unless you just go back the way you came…so we walked in this HUGE triangle and I’m pretty sure it was at least a couple of miles, if not more), we started the walk back into the city. We decided to get a group together to go see Transformers!!! So we found out movie times and so on while reading the periódico (newspaper) in this little café place. Then we each went our separate ways to our homes to await the 10:30 movie!
I went home and had dinner (steak and potatoes, surprised? Lol) and watch some tv with Elsa, like we do. Then Serri (the other girl living in my house) and I went out to go see the movie. We met with a few other people outside the theater. I was pretty excited about seeing not only the movie, but the theater and how it ran, and what not. So here is my “analysis” of the Monumental Cine in B.A.: It only cost $20 pesos to get in (Yes, less than $7 US). And it wasn’t too interesting. There was a little restaurant in there and then a small concession stand with one worker. For those of you who go to the movies often in the US, prices (as always) at the concession stand were higher than getting a drink somewhere else, but cheaper than the US. What would be considered a Medium Drink and Popcorn (I say “considered” because it was pretty big, but so are the drinks/popcorn in the US) was a little less than $6 US. The candy was anywhere from 50 cents (US) to a few dollars, depending on what you got. It was pretty neat.
The theater itself was like any movie theater, a big screen and seats, lol. Sorry, no exciting stories about that. The movie was really fun! It was in English (we made sure of it!) with Spanish subtitles. I was surprised at how LONG it was (like 3 hours!)!
Afterwards, Thomas and I joined Sophie and Eric at this little bar. No worries padres, I didn’t drink anything, lol. We hung out for awhile and then went on home. It wasn’t too late for Buenos Aires, only about 2:30!!! He he he. And the walk home wasn’t too scary or anything. There were still a few people out that late, but they were all doing their own thing and didn’t even pay attention to us, so no worries.
That’s pretty much all for the day, I mean, not much else can happen after 2:30 in the morning unless you go out! Lol.
My B.A. notice of the day is over:
- Coke! (Well, Soda, Pop, Soda Pop, whatever you like to call it). It’s so much better here! I couldn’t put my finger on why it was so much better until Thomas pointed out that there is no high fructose corn syrup in any of them. And it’s true. They use real sugar here in their Coke, Sprite, (I had the BEST orange soda and the movie!) and whatever other drinks they have. So yeah, I vote that’s what the US starts doing! =)
Well, that’s all I got for the day! More to come soon! Love you all!
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