Hello Buenos Aires

Ah... it´s so nice to be in a city that feels like home and have no agenda. We can just wander around and relax without having to worry about rain (knock on wood) or worry about making a tour. It´s great!
For our first day we finally slept in and then went to the Belles Artes art museum. It was bigger than we thought and had some great paintings. Thanks Jaime for telling us about it last year! Plus there are some beautiful parks around it that we wandered through killiing time until the museum opened at 12:30. Afterwards we went over to the Recoleta Munich for lunch, one of the older restaurants in Buenos Aires, and supposedly where Borges used to hang out. It was very nice and old but we made a big mistake ordering what we thought to be a Waldorf Salad. In fact it turned out to be creamed apples, pear and hearts of palm. I can barely blog about it bec. my stomach is still turning. Fortunately we ran out of their trying to erase the creamy mcream memory and headed to Freddo, a local icecream place, for an afternoon snack to erase the horror of lunch. Mmmm.. dulce de leche and chocolate. so so good. And what come best after icecream in Buenos Aires? shopping of course. So we hit up Santa Fe for the cheapy shoes, and of course each walked away with one pair. Shockingly me with a bright yellow pair of sandals and STeph with black ones. We´re so predictable. haha
We also went to this amazing bookstore that is in an old theater on Santa Fe. It´s called El Alteno ( i could be spelling that wrong). Anyways, it´s such a brilliant idea! We had coffee in the cafe on the stage and looked out to the balconys of books. I´m convinced all towns should do this with old theaters they don´t use anymore. It really was beautiful. And we wouldn´t have known about it except this American woman came up to us in the Museum and told us. She also told us to go to Bella Italia for dinner in Palermo and so we did. We felt a little guilty eating pasta in the city of steak, but it is also a city of supposedly great Italian food. And indeed it was. Steph had an interesting lemon ravioli with salmon that was tasty and me spaghetti with broccoli and salmon. excellent
Afterwards we met our friends Santiago and Nacho, god it´s still funny, for drinks. They were great hosts to us and we thank them.