Gabe and Courtney continued...

It's been long enough that I won't remember exactly what we did every day, but I would like to start this post with some pictures of our trip to the Recoleta Cemetary. This place was by far the highlight of our tourist activities. It's an immense cemetary with many famous Argentinians, Eva Peron not excluded. It's essentially like walking into a village of the dead, and very rich and/or famous. I went camera crazy, so here are some of my favorites:

Walking into a place like this, you can't help but feel a certain sense of awe. It's a place with it's own spirit and life to it, which I suppose seems like a paradox considering it's full of dead people. It's as if the wind whispers secrets down the corridors of the tombs. If you ever find yourself in Buenos Aires, this place is a must-see.

At a cafe outside the cemetary is a huge palos borracho tree. There are a number of these behemoths all over BA. They are quite impressive.






I would like to take a moment to share with you another gem I found while down here in Buenos Aires



That's right, Papa Gino's has made it to South America! On another note, Courtney spotted a Dominoes Pizza one night. I guarantee you these are not the same businesses. If America ev er comes down here there's going to be a lot of explaining to do...




We also took a trip to the Japanese Gardens, a second trip for me as those who actually read my blog will know. I couldn't resist a few more pictures:





On our way to another park, I decided to snap a few more pictures. Courtney is not fond of having her picture taken. But I of course can't help myself partly because I'm a shutterbug and partly because i think Courtney is beautiful. But try and convince someone of this while you have your camera in their face :) Anyhow, here's a few Courtney pics. I can only hope she doesn't yell at me to take them off the blog (you may laugh, but it's already happened once).





Now let's all make Courtney feel better by leaving comments about how pretty she looks, and just maybe I can leave these pictures up.

Anyhow, we made it to another park that was pretty big. There was a big flower garden and a lake with paddle boats. I of course was attracted to the graffitied statue:




That sums up the pictures I took while Gabe and Courtney were here. Other things we did were shop at some awesome crafts fairs, drink mate, and eat at Cabana Las Lilas. At Cabana Las Lilas, our steaks actually came out with this in them:



Estoy jugoso means "I'm rare", which is how we ordered our steaks. Awesome!

So now Courtney and Gabe have left and I embark on my 3 1/2 week-long stint of solitude, which as I post this is now less than 3 weeks. It's been nice being by myself for a little bit. I realized the last time I actually lived by myself was about 5 years ago for around 4 months in LA before I moved to NY, and I was too busy to enjoy it and I had a few friends around. Now I am in a foreing country and know nobody (well, that' snot entirely true), but the point is I am spending some much deserved time with myself. I hope I don't drive myself crazy ;)

Bye Gabe and Courtney. I will miss you for the next 3 weeks.