this morning, kavitha and i flew over to buenos aires from the puerto iguazu airport. LAN was not only on time (gasp! shock!), but had some awesome snacks and they even gave us some nifty airplane magnetic bookmarks! you can be assured that they are all stuck into kavithas lonely planet south america book.
we flew into the jorge newbury airport, which is the domestic airport in buenos aires, and lo and behold, as soon as we exited we were right on the water! what a great location! it cost us only $5.50 per person to get into town, and we were dropped right at the door of our hostel. hooray for this manuel tienda leon airport shuttle service.
we checked in (after a bit of kerfuffle) and were convinced to get a hostelling international membership. 43 argentine pesos, which is about $15, while at home the same membership costs $30. what gives?!
meanwhile, we had a bit of time to kill before arti, bossmat and cheryl got in, so we wandered about town trying to get a sense of the area. thank goodness, we came across carrefour and picked up some cookies and water. it felt like a slice of home and there were some major bargoons!
when we got back to the hostel, lo and behold, the girls were there with their backpacks! it was so surreal seeing them here in buenos aires. check-in took about 40 minutes (cheryl claims it was closer to 12 hours) because of all the various iterations of pricing, and we ended up getting two different rooms - kavitha and i in one, and arti, bossmat, and cheryl (from now on, referred to as ABC) in the other. we had some nice aussies and a lady from washington state in our room, while the other three ended up with a naked man with a towel.
speaking of towels, i am happy to report that i have found a replacement COTTON towel for my smelly quick dry towel. i am excited to use it and not smell worse after my shower than before my shower.
anyway, besides that, after the girls came in we went out for some beverages and a bruschetta sandwich (?) at a little cafe on florida street. this was followed by phone card purchases at farmacity (0.13 pesos per minute to canada - suspect?) and then dinner at a cafe down the street from our hostel. the meal left a little to be desired. i had a lacklustre turkey and tomato sandwich, while cheryl and kavitha had some ricotta cheese ravioli (their review: kavitha was hungry and it did the job - quasi.), arti had some fettucini with really lame tomato sauce, and then bossmat had perhaps the piece de resistance. the waiter brought her the wrong dish at first, which was fries, ham and egg, which did not jive seeing that it was not what she ordered, and that she is a vegetarian. so, the dish was sent back, and it was replaced with a tomato sauce with two raw eggs and several misplaced green peas. bossmats review: it did the job at the time, but now she is feeling some regrets.
at this point, i think we are all pooped from our flights and will get to bed soon. until tomorrow, goodnight!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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Good luck with the food Arti! And Welcome to America del Sud, land of many great revolutionaries and poets (you may be able to sense the jealousy oozing out of this post). Have fun and take so many pictures and please be able to do a play by play of you ENTIRE trip for me so I can live vicariously through you.
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