New Adventures in the Midwest!: Buenos Aires! Part 1

We had a great trip to Argentina (albeit it was a brief trip). Our flight from Houston to BA was cancelled on Thursday (after a 2 hour delay, and 2 hours sitting on the plane at the gate). We had to deplane and wait in a line for an hour to get our hotel, taxi, food vouchers, then wait in a line for a taxi at 2:30 am. We got to our hotel and got a few hours of sleep and then went back to the airport to get on a 2pm flight which got us into BA at 2am Saturday. Long story short-we lost a day.

The flight was long but uneventful. When we arrived at 2 am in a country where we don't speak their language, we weren't sure what we were going to do/how we were going to get to the hotel. Luckily, just outside of customs and still inside the airport was a registered taxi stand where we could get a safe ride to the city. We fell asleep very easily and woke up a few hours later to an amazing breakfast at the hotel. Next, we met up with Mike's colleagues and took a taxi to a giant park on the northern side of the city. The weather was perfect, about 60 degrees, and we explored a rose garden, walked past the polo fields and found our way to a Japanese garden. It was very cool to just be walking around experiencing the city like someone who lived there. Lots of people out running, walking, roller blading. Also lot of dogs! Everywhere! but not wild dogs-these were well-loved members of the family playing fetch or doing agility trials or just out for a stroll.

After 3 hours of walking around we found an italian restaurant for lunch. I had a great empanada and pizza and of course we had Argentinian wine! I found out that there are a lot of people of Italian decent in BA which made a lot of sense as we ended up eating at a lot of really good Italian restaurants.