The city of Buenos Aires

We spent hours walking around the city.

The day we got to Argentina after flying all night we had an hour to shower and then took off on our first tour. I was still so nauseated I laid in the bus and sat up whenever there was something interesting to see. When we were off the bus I felt find. I was not going to fly across the world and spend it in my hotel room.

The dock area has been totally "recycled" or what we would call updated and rebuilt. 

We drove past the apartment where the current pope lived when he was in Argentina. There was this caricature statue of the pope downtown.

It is election time in Argentina and posters were everywhere. There were posters plastered all over the garbage cans. I'm not sure that I would want my face on the trash.

They had vertical gardens. This is the side of a building. 

This huge flower structure opens and closes with sunrise and sunset.

We went to the The Barrio Norte called Recoleta is the quarter of the Buenos Aires rich. In the cemetery in Recoleta is the grave of Eva Duarte who became famous as Evita Perón. Sean wasn't keen on going into the cemetery. He was exhausted from being up all night but when he heard he might see a skeleton he was all over it. People buy crypts for as much as $300,000. If they don't pay the upkeep they just go to hell. There were caskets broken apart and crypts in total shamble, others were immaculate. You can also sell your family crypt and then you have to move out all the caskets. They have basements and subbasements so multiple generations can be in the same place. (Pets too.)

One of the unmaintained units.

No surprise that Eva Peron's is well maintained.

Pigeons everywhere.

Argentina claims to have some of the best ice cream in the world. Sean agreed

I thought of Alika when we walked through the city. She would have loved all the bands and chaos of the city. We saw a Scottish band in Argentina. That was kind of funny.

We took the Tigre tour. The Argentineans told the Spanish there were tigers at the end of the river to keep the Spanish away from their gold. We took a river boat ride down the Parana River and saw all the Delta Islands. The people who live on the Islands buy their groceries off of boats and take a school boat to school. It was very beautiful. I wouldn't mind spending a couple of weeks there.

The pictures don't do it justice. The Tigre tour was arranged by our guide. Everything went well until they dropped us off in the middle of the city. I've never been on a tour that didn't take you back to the hotel. We got lost and had to go into a hotel and ask them to look up our hotel on the internet and tell us how to get back. Very strange!

Captain of the boat.

Eating Dulce de Leche cookies. Sean thought they looked like little crabbie patties.

When we were driving back through the city we passed the slums of Buenos Aires, miles of them. I thought there were a lot (until I got to Brazil.)