Excursion #1: El Tigre

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As a class, we have a few larger "excursions" planned for the term. The first of these was a trip to El Tigre, where many city-dwellers have little vacation "casitas" on the river banks (kind of like lakeside bungalows in New England). It was a gorgeous day - we took a nice boat ride to a restaurant on an island in the river, and afterwards made a visit to San Isidro, where we visited another feria and were treated to helados by our professor (who is AMAZING)

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Photos

Here we go...
getting ready to take off down the river

Ferris wheel
we passed a carnival on the way

Gato Blanco
the restaurant where we ate lunch

Amigos
(left to right) Diego, one of our TAs; Courtney and Rigel

Asado
nothing says "Argentina" like a parilla full of meat

The Park
behind the restaurant that we rolled ourselves to after our enormous lunch

Spencer
is allergic to grass. Hence the lawn chair

I
am not allergic to grass (thank goodness)

Lauren
definitely not allergic to grass....also completely asleep. we had quite the time waking her up when we had to leave