Hay hay hay…. Today was such a long day, but it was really good!
I woke up at 9:30 (on my own!) after having a great night of sleep. No one was hope (or at least my house mate was sleeping), so I took a shower and by the time I was done, my lovely house mom had breakfast out on the table, ready for me to partake of. Having a banana and some toast (with strawberry jam and dulce de leche!) and café (made on the stove, the old fashioned way!) was basically a perfect start to the day.
After breakfast, I finished getting ready, then set off on my own to find a kiosko (I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned these or not, they are little stores set up everywhere that sell candy, gum, drinks, cigarettes, phone cards, etc) to buy a phone card for my new cell phone! Then I walked around my neighborhood trying to find a Correo Argentina (post office) to get stamps and envelopes, etc. I couldn’t find one, but found myself really thirsty so I stopped into a local McDonalds (Yes, even here, and there is one basically on every corner!) and got jugo de naranja (orange juice) and I am pretty sure it was the best orange juice I’ve ever had… I mean, maybe I just haven’t had it in a long time, but I’m pretty sure it was amazing. While I sipped on my juice I tried to get my phone to work, and of course it wouldn’t… I entered in the number the card was telling me to enter and it just wouldn’t work. Sigh. So I finished my juice and headed back to my apartment to ask if my house mom knew how to do it (maybe I was reading the Spanish card wrong?) Well… I wasn’t. She read it and did exactly what I did and it just wasn’t having it. Then I asked Serri, my house mate and she said when she bought phone cards, she just asked the worker at the kiosko to do it for her because she could never figure it out!
Well, by this time I was due to meet up with Bridget, so I walked to the subway to meet her. I was a little early so I stopped into a kiosko and asked the guy there to see if he could get my phone to work…well, he couldn’t. Sigh.
Bridget and I finally got together and went to have lunch. My first Buenos Aires Pizza…was oh so good. I read in one of my B.A. books that pizza here was basically amazing…and they were not lying. It was just cheese (there were single, large olives atop of each slice, I picked those off, ew) and was just the best cheese ever. Too heavy to want to eat every day, but still wonderful!
Moving along, we decided to walk to Recoleta (little did we know that Walking was going to be our main activity of the day…more to come on that). Recoleta was just as wonderful as the first time I was there; I am pretty sure I could go a couple of more times and not see everything there is to see. We left and right outside the cemetery there was this little mini-market thing going on…well, what looked like a mini-market. We started walking along it and realized there were definitely at least 100 vendors there! It was so neat, there was tango dancing (of course) and everything you could ever expect at a market: jewelry, clothes, purses, mate, fruit, books, notebooks, belts, etc. etc. etc. It was so cool! And everything is so cheap! It’s hard to not try and buy everything! However, we did not buy anything! We found out that this little market happens every weekend, Saturday and Sunday and many of the vendors said they’d be here next weekend and the next. So Bridget and I decided that we’d to back towards the end of our trip to get souvenirs and what not, because we’ll have a better grasp of our money situation…aren’t we just smart? =P
After Recoleta, Bridget wanted to go to this park called Jardín Japones (Japanese Garden) because there’s supposed to be a tea house and a pretty lake with a pretty bridge and all this other pretty stuff, lol. So we went…and realized, wow…it’s pretty far. According to Google Maps, its two miles…and that’s not including the 1.5 miles we’d already walked from the pizza place to Recoleta…so yeah! Surprisingly enough, my feet weren’t hurting too bad. Yay for good walking shoes. Once at the garden, Thomas called Bridget’s phone (of course, their phones were working!) and he met up with us a little later, but we had to walk about another mile to find him! The garden was quite lovely (yeah, I just said quite), There were at least two fútbol games going on in different places of the park. However, we did not find any tea house…but it was a big park, we might have missed it somewhere.
After we finally met up with Thomas, we stopped to have a small pre-dinner meal (it was around 6:00 at this point…Bridget and I started our walk to Recoleta around 2:00!) at some random café. I wasn’t too hungry, so I just got café con leche (so good, coffee has yet to disappoint me in B.A.) After the brief meal (and by brief I mean we were there for about an hour and a half) we took off window shopping. Around 8/8:30 we decided to go our separate ways. They both had to be back for dinner by nine. I went back to my place and my lovely house mate allowed me to use her wi-fi usb cable thing and now here I am! It’s taken me awhile to write this update because I have been trying to get my email to work as well. Sigh.
Tomorrow there is a chance of getting to go to a futbol game! I really hope I can go, I am going to have to check my email first thing to see if Natalia got the tickets or not. We shall see…and I asked her about my phone, so that’s even more things to check on tomorrow, sigh (again). Well, even though it’s early (about 12:15 AM here) I think I will be going to bed soon.
Thank you all for reading, love you and will update tomorrow (internet willing of course!) =)
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