seeing BA by foot and bike

1. the breakfast was underwhelming. they tried to serve me 3% milk...sick.

2. some people had bed bugs. and xavier let me in on the fact he had seen 2 cucarachas. except i need not worry because the first one he kicked into the drain. fabulous.

3. i went to Recoleta cemetary with my new friend Steve. i met him the previous night and he offered to keep me company siteseeing while Xavier was at his interview. i took him up on it when he leans in and whispers ¨the best part is that I am twice your age...and gay.¨ i could not have been happier!! i knew we would have a great time. the cemetary was like its own town. it was incredible. i saw eva peron´s grave.

4. steve and i took a walking tour around the north of BA and had a lovely lunch before i took the cab to meet Xavier in San Telmo. Steve gave me lots of good traveling tips including how to avoid getting ripped off by cab drivers and how to avoid bed bugs.

5. in San Telmo, Xavier and I took a bike ride around the south of BA. we went by a beautiful plaza, la Boca (la camineta), the 2nd most polluted river in the world, the ecological reserve, rio plata (the 2nd widest river in the world-it was like a brown ocean), Puerto Madera, and Plaza de Mayo (FYI casa rosada is not pink because the president is a woman).

6. we had dinner at a very nice restaurant with our new friend Shara from Canada. i learned that a waldorf salad here consists of:
apples, walnuts, and palm hearts on a bed of celery.

7. we went to a salsa club later that night. but i was so freaking tired by the time everyone went out, it was not all that fun. i am really going to have to get used to the fact that people really don´t go out until midnight. it is a crazy and scary realization.