Buenos Aires

Flying from Dubai to Buenos Aires was loooooong.  Our first flight was 14 hours.  We stopped in Rio, mucked around for a bit, got back on the same plane, got diverted to Uruguay because of thunderstorms, sat around, and finally made it to Argentina a gajillion hours later.

Our first few days in the city have been nice and we've been slowly acquainting ourselves with South America.  On our first day we went to one of their local bookstores called El Ateneo which has been considered to be one of the top ten bookstores in the world because of it's beauty (it's inside an old theater building).

The next day we tried some empanadas.  Shannon and I had never been introduced to empanadas before and that's a travesty.  It turns out they're classy Hot Pockets.  Om nom nom.

Then we took a walking tour.  First, we saw the congress building and we slowly walked East with our gigantic tour group.  On the way, we crossed the 9 de Julio Ave with and the huge Evita sign.  Evita is a bit of a controversial figure around here... as are basically all other politicians.  It seems like in the country's wild history there has been a lot of different regimes.  The history lesson was.... confusing and I will summarize it this way:  corruption, regime, revolution, repeat.

Finally, we made it to "The Pink House" which is kind of like our American White House.

Yesterday, we went to check-out a tango show.  We know very little about Tango but we quickly observed that it's not easy.  We'll be in Argentina for more than a month though so maybe before we leave I'll be twirling Shannon like a pro.