9-10 (Wednesday)


I felt like a new person this morning. It´s amazing what sleep can do for you.

We had breakfast at the hotel and then walked down Florida Street to the travel agency to pay and pick up our documents for Iguazu Falls.

Barbara´s friend Mark, emailed her and said we must see Sacramento in Uruguay so we walked down to the river and bought tickets on the fast boat for Sunday. We walked around the Plaza San Martin and then over to the three block shortest street in Argentina, Arroyo, where we saw the very expensive hotel (can´t remember the name right now). I decided we should go in to have a look and use the facilities. The bathroom was VERY nice. We went to the gift shop and spent a long time talking to the clerk and looking at stuff. Barbara wanted to buy a mate "cup" but the woman advised waiting until we get to Uruguay, so she bought a mate book instead. We walked on to the Recoleta cemetery where Evita is buried. We went in the church and took some pictures. Some guy came up to me and told me I wasn´t supposed to take pictures. I informed him that the sign said you could if there wasn´t a service going on and that I had asked the guard and he said it was okay. We went on over to the cemetery. The mausoleums thee are incredible. Those families spent a fortune to intern their dead. We found Evita´s resting place after walking around for about 30 minutes. By this time it was after six so we decided to head back to the hotel and get packed up to go to Iguazu Falls in the morning.

We stopped at a little cafe on Florida Street to have a lite dinner. We had planned to have an Argentine steak tonight but neither one of us was hungry. When we came out of the cafe the vendors were setting up for the night market along the street. We stopped and listened to some singers and to watch the tango dancers. BA is really an exciting, happening city. I call it "lip lock" city because everywhere you look young people have their lips locked together.