Nate and Shelly’s Travel Blog

Today is a great day. For the first time on our trip we found an Internet Cafe with something faster than a dial-up connection and can now post a real entry.

As Shelly mentioned in the previous post, Nikki arrived in Buenos Aires yesterday and we celebrated her birthday in style. We spent the afternoon touring the Plaza de Mayo, which is home to most of the main government buildings. The picture below is Shelly and I in front of the Casa Rosa, which serves as the President´s house and the balcony where Evita stood.

After going back to the room and cooling off a bit, we headed out for a night of Tango. For Nikki´s birthday we spent the evening watching Tango dancing at a local club. The dancing was amazing and it was one of the best parts of our trip so far. Now, though, I have a bigger problem… Shelly wants to take Tango lessons. My two left feet should be able to handle it, but we´ll see. The picture below is from last night´s club and notice the green shoes. Shelly picked up a blue neon pair yesterday and has her eye on some green ones today.

Two days into our stay in Buenos Aires and we´re loving it. Everything here is so inexpensive and in most cases cheaper than Peru. As a comparison, a 1L bottle of beer is about $.80, a ham and cheese sandwich is $2, and a full steak dinner for two with a bottle of premium wine is about $15.

There is also so much to do that it´s going to be hard to pace ourselves. The people and their lifestyle is very laid back and they enjoy life. What´s not to like about a society that eats great steak, drinks fine wine, and Tangos into the early morning? We´ve been eating dinner around 11 p.m or 12 a.m. and the places are packed. It´s quiet the contrast from the U.S.

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we are now in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We arrived last night around 11pm to over 90º heat and sweltering humidity which continues today.

Despite the heat, today is a great day because we were joined by our good friend Nikki who also made it safely to Buenos Aires. Tonight we´ll be celebrating Nikki´s birthday the Argentine way…with Tango.

Ciao for now.

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