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We're off to Iguazu Falls tomorrow! Car rented, an atlas bought, and a brief idea of where we may stop to camp along the way. And Sarge gets to drive all 40+ hours. (Good) for many reasons: A, I can't drive stick. B, "I can't drive well" (arguable). C, I can read the whole time since we don't have CDs and we have listened to almost every popular radio song 1000 times on the music video channel.
SO EXCITED.
We'll probably be eating a lot of pasta and tuna this week. Which may be a good thing because our stomachs are still digesting the pounds of seafood from this past Saturday. On the BAexpats website (anyone coming to visit/live in BA should definitely check this site out), we read about a good, cheap seafood restaurant called Damblee. Considering we both love seafood and haven't touched it in over a month, we decided to have a really nice dinner out, followed by tango. One bottle of wine + free bruschetta and pan + fried calimari + our individual fish dinners + shared dulce de leche milkshake later, we breathed, unbuttoned our pants, and came home to lay down. No room for tango.
However, we WERE able to wake up the next day to go to the Feria de Mataderos, a fair in the barrio of Mataderos (...that's a given) that takes place every Sunday. It's an hours bus ride away with live music, random tango-ers, food vendors, a market, gauchos performing riding acts, skate parks, etc. Tons of people and artisanal crafts to buy. It seems like we always subconsciously want to go on an extra journey, so when we hopped on a bus and ended up on a dusty road 30 minutes outside BA, we weren't surprised. Just really excited for a crowded hour and a half long journey back standing up.
The Halloween celebrations here are quite different from that in the US. It was both Sarge and my first time not to dress up, and we only saw one person actually adorned in an outfit (a pirate). Maybe we missed the memo on a great Halloween party, but our taxi drivers told us that people pay more attention to Dia de los Muertos. So in honor of the holiday we watched the Walking Dead, An American Horror Story, Paranormal Activity 3, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Amityville Horror, and maybe more. But we're ashamed to admit that.
The weather is finally so, so nice here- warm on the verge of hot- and our park across the street seems to be the place to sunbathe. So besides lounging around reading and catching some rays every day, we've visited Barrio Chino, the China town of Buenos Aires. We were the foreigners amidst foreigners, and the Chinese street meat was a great change from the empanadas and carne we see everyday.
Observation #1: It seems that it doesn't matter where you live or where you are from or how old you are, if you are a construction worker, it is part of the job description to hassle girls walking alone to an almost uncomfortable extent. Unfortunately, we live next to a building being renovated. On a good note, I now know 20 different ways to say "hey baby" in Spanish.
Observation #2: Don't go to the grocery store around 8 or 9 PM unless you want to wait in line for an hour (no exaggeration). You will also end up buying at least two bars of candy. When chocolate stares you in the face for a good 30 minutes, you just can't say no.
Observation #3: Sarge dislikes construction workers.
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