Ok as promised i will tell you all about my trip to BsAs with ACA. We left the UAP around 7:15am and drove for probably about 6 hours more or less....probably the more considering we were in a giant double-decker bus. Thankfully Callie and i got a spot near the from of the bus so i didn't get car sick, that would have been miserable. We got into BsAs around....oh i can't remember sometime in the middle of the afternoon.Since we had a bunch of free time Sapphira and Callie and I went out to explore Calle Florida which is a pedestrian street lined with shops. A ton of leather. I went bananas. Have i ever mentioned that i LOVE all things leather? Anyways. Exploring, shopping, getting hollered at by a million men, and constantly confusing the living daylights out of anyone who managed to get us to stop and talk to them. Because we responded in Spanish everyone thought we were brasilian, when we said no they couldn't figure out where on earth we were from. Brasileñas? No. (look of shock) Donde son?! Estados unidos (more shock) oooooh. Every single time. Its like they couldn't believe Americans could speak anything other than English....which they have good reason for. It was funny though.
I cant remember what happened which day exactly but we went on several bus tours around BsAs to the south end and the north, to the poor district and the rich. Both were beautiful in my opinion. La Boca is so beautifully colored, everything is painted in bright hues...I wish north americans didnt insistant on their stupid 'tope' and 'rust' and 'pine green' colors of houses....there is nothing more fun than walking past buildings painted violent and gold, turquoise and lime green, pink and orange. Its like Becca heaven.
We went to a gorgeous, and i mean stunning rose garden, we went to an old theater with some of the best acoustics in the world (fact) we went to several malls and restaurants, we went to an Art museum where i got to see several original Degas...don't even ask me how some of the ACAs acted around the paintings of the naked women i wanted to murder several of them. *sigh* Anyways...i managed to get one of the most spectacular sunburns on my face (yes Daddy, i'm sorry i should have been wearing sunscreen-I'm an idiot), but even greater is that it only burned around my sunglasses, now i have an epic goggle looking tan on my face. Wahoo! I bought what i consider to be the most gorgeous blue leather jacket on the face of the planet. I love it, its awesome :)
annnnnd that was pretty much it. On the last day (thursday) we rolled out of bed, packed up and hopped back into that confounded bus. We drove about 2 hours before stopping at an estancia for lunch and some cultural time. We had traditional foods, the gauchos were dress traditionally, there was dancing and music and horseback riding, and a horse show type thing. It was very very fun, i would recommend doing something like that for anyone coming to visit. Then we all smooshed ourselves back into the bus in our respective seats....minus me and Callie because no one wants to actually fit two to two seats, we prefer to have all our buddies in our seats with us. It was a long but fun trip back to school, arriving back around 10pm.
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