before i talk about todays events, i will recap last night{s events. we went to a tango show at cafe tortoni, which cost us 60 pesos. the show was good, perhaps even MUY good. the first set was a bit confusing because all the women were wearing scandalous boudoir type outfits and not so much about the swishy dresses that we have seen in other tango routines. the food at cafe tortoni was not too bad either. i was happy to see that they sold churros at the venue, and of course HAD to pick some up! (shoutouts to a-beans. sigh.) what i thought was chocolate sauce with churros (chocolate con churros) ended up being hot chocolate and churros. my tummy was none too happy!
today was my 26th birthday (sheeesh!) typically, birthdays for me are bittersweet. another year older, another year wiser. i preferred to keep it rather low key, and in the morning the girls went shopping while i handwashed a load of clothing and then dried it at the laundromat. so nice to have (semi) clean clothes! then we met up and then went to san telmo, which ended up being a bit of a ghost town in terms of things being open. we ended up having some empenadas and various beverages in the square, and noticed that there were a lot of pigeons around us (note that cheryl LOVES pigeons.... not.) and a lot of americans who seemed to like using the word like a lot. like oh my god. like totally, like STOP! AHHHHH!
afterwards, we took the subway over to chinatown, which is 5 blocks a way from juramento station close to the end of the D line. the juramento area was super cute - very residential, with lots of cute boutiques and much less touristy. chinatown was behind some train tracks and consisted of maybe 5 restaurants and a couple of import/export type stores. but boy was i glad to have some chinese food!! i also want to add the strangeness that is argentinean chinese people. they speak what sounds like mandarin, but with a bit more of a twang! i have found communicating with them very careful. it is strange that as chinese people, we look similar, but can{t communicate!! between pigeon spanish, english, and cantonese, there was very little common language ground.
then of course, we went to mcds for a dulce de leche ice cream. YUM!
in bs as, we have not been able to go out, because we have been too tired to do so! it seems as though buenos aires is coming up as a big party city a la ibiza - i cant believe that people go out at 1, 2AM! so opposite to north america.
tomorrow morning we are going to uruguay, montevideo in particular.
last note: we also learned today that kavitha sometimes goes by the name of cavity.
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a load of laundry, dinner, an ice cream cone and in bed by 11pm...
were you re-enacting your 12th birthday? sheesh.
have you used your insect shirt yet?
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