Hola!
Today is our second day in Buenos Aires. We didn´t arrive until 1:30 yesterday afternoon because our plane had to make an unexpected stop in Santiago to refuel cause of some random storms or something. Very painful as the plane had no airconditioning while we were parked there.
Anyhoö: here is mine (Steve´s) blog for the last 48ish hours - we have been a bit bored and jetlagged so i will apologise for the length.
>April 4 -Somewhere over the ocean.
We´ve lost track of the time due to neither of us having watches or phones but i know its light outside and it shouldnt be. I think its about 2am in Buenos Aires. Flying Quantas is significantly cooler than flying virgin (note to terry) mostly due to the free beer and ice cream.
4.27 hours to go: this flight is significantly longer than i thought it would be, and i cant believe i was actually excited about it. now i am just tired and sore, but whatever.
Buenos aires time: 5:30pm
We have finally found a hotel for the night- a place called Hotel Uruguay for about $40 AUS- not too bad but we were running out of options. Before that we got to walk around the main strip for a little bit. Its quite cool there are buskers everywhere. There was this Spanish rasta dude dressed like bob marley singing in one of the main squares and then there was a cool little 3 piece funk band who just plugged into some random power source and just played on the equivilant of the queen st mall - Av Florida.
4am Buenos Aires Time:
Jetlag sucks. We fell asleep about 6pm and missed our wake up call for dinner so im awake now and cami is still sleeping for a bit. But neither of us have any water or food so we´re feasting on easter eggs (thanks Kim & Mum).
9am Sunday:
We left the hotel about 530am and have now walked pretty much the whole way around BA and discovered that nothing is open a) this early & b) on a sunday. We finally found somewhere for breakfast and ordered the first thing on the menu the delicious Tostad Mixto (or ham and cheese toasted sandwich). Amazing.
We checked out of hotel at 10 and went in search of a more affordable hostel which we could settle into for about a week. our first choice - BA Stop - was booked up for the night with a possibility of being able to get a room tomorrow so we went across the road to Down Town Mate where we are staying tonight. We are sleeping in a bunk bed but our room has a little balcony which is kind of cool.
We went to a lot of effort to try and eat some traditional food today for lunch only to realise that the pizzaria we had sat down in was actually called the American Deli. Basically nothing is open today because it is a Sunday which sucks.
At lunch we had our first South American beer. Very nice but of course Cami went extremely red.
Also Cami has found a great energy drink called Speed which she is sure Ariel and Calley will be excited about. It´s kind of fruity a bit like black current juice.
ps:next time i decide to go travelling can someone sensible remind me of this time and tell me to learn the language before i leave. It has been a very difficult 2 days- interesting though.
pps: photos soon. we forgot the cable- back at the hostel.
Steve & Cami
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oo.. speed. i like the sound of this drink.
i am sure it is fantabulous. as good as E though?? probs not. nothing can be as good.
xxx
ummmm steve i remember sticking up little words all over your room so you could learn the language!!
didnt help though haylee.. i can still only say computador and la luz....
and calley- cami says 'nothing is a good as e'
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