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Published: January 13th 2006
Just when we were getting to know our little town of Puerto Iguazu we have to leave to fly back to Buenos Aries...The city that does not wake up until 11pm.
Argentina has lived up to its name for the best steak!!! We went out last night and had the most amazing steak dinner with wine and all sorts of goodies... The more we walk around this city the more beautiful it gets, every corner we turn there is a great restaurant or giant historical buildings...the avenues are lined with the big green trees, it reminds me of New York but more green and safer...
The catch to this city or country for that matter is that they do things in the most complicated way possible...as our hotel guy said...¨We do things a little slow here¨ just to name a few, you can´t buy two things at once, you have to get separate tickets for each item and they have this really weird thing with getting the exact change...no matter what they ask you..do you have un peso?...NO!! if i did i would have given it to you..and if you don´t have exact change they usually just round up
your price cause they don´t like looking for change to give you...the most inefficient thing so far was trying to see a movie with 4 people. You must buy all tickets to together..you can´t go to separate windows to speed things up and the reason for this is because they have assigned seating, so they need to take another ten min trying to figure out where they are going to put you..and by that time the movie has already started and once you find your way there its dark and you can´t see the letters and numbers on your isle to sit anyway...So we just sat in the back and no one even uses those seats anyway. At the hotel we have elevators that go up but not down, you have to take the stairs down..and you can´t control your air from your room you have to call downstairs wait until they can find the one guy who speaks english to say ¨ok..it´s on now¨ ...it just keeps getting better and better nothing shocks us anymore we have given up on trying to figure out why they do the things they do..Oh and I learned the hard way how to
use a bidet.
We went to the famous cemetery in Recoleta where all the Famous and high society elite are buried..we saw the tomb of Evita...The creepy part of it was not the fact that we were walking around graves for an hour its that there are cats everywhere in the cemetery!!! The first thing you see when you walk through the giant brick parameters is cats walking around...not outside or around the outside of the walls ...only inside. They were sitting on all the graves and no one bothers them..¨Watchers of the dead¨
Woohoo!! you can see my ankles again!! my feet are not swollen anymore! Now the only thing is when we took off from the airport yesterday at noon from Iguazu my right ear still has not popped after the altitude change...it actually hurts pretty bad..but it´s not as bad as those last days in Costa Rica Right!!! sooo It could be worse...=)
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Hi Guys
First off this program is GREAT!!! I look forward to your emails everyday. You guys are having so much fun, how is Ariatna, how are the kids? I'm glad your feet have deflated :)Oh, by the way I love the information I'm gaining by reading the other comments Jenn.:)When were you going to fill me in on what's going on in your life?:) Love ya lots, Jessica