Our day started off early for our city tour of Buenos Aires Argentina. Getting on the bus, we had the most amazing tour guides who seemed to be really relaxed and less rushed than at Rio De Janiero.
Our first stop on this romantic day was the first cemetery in the city.
It was one of the most unique cemeteries I have ever seen and Evita was buried there. We took many photos of various sarcophagi and it was interesting because the caskets were in plain view in a few of them.
We had to wait in line to see Evita's family grave. But Evita herself was buried underground so that she may truly rest in peace.
There was a huge tree that I got a picture of outside of the graveyard and there were many professional dog walkers hanging out there with 4 to 7 dogs they were watching.
Next
Susan
and I went to the town center with the familiar pink government building of which the president helicopters into each day to work on time.
Right around the corner there was an amazing cathedral that was very beautiful and totally different than many cathedrals in Europe. There were guards by the tomb of the general who fought for the independents and it was one of the few churches who actually allowed swords inside the facilities.
Next we went to La Boca which used to be an old alley and poor area of which people used to throw garbage away in the alleys. But now after many years of art and hardwork on the alleys and streets from one man and other artists it's a complete fantastic tourist and shopping district. All of the buildings were painted with vibrant colors on their aluminum walls and there were hundreds of shops of every nook and cranny.
I bought a Matte souvenir cup, sippie and Matta leaves and am excited to try it out on the boat to see what it tastes like. I hope I like it. I think I will.
Susan bought a painting of a couple doing the tango for about 20 dollars US.
We also went to a scenic viewpoint and took pictures with an Argentinean manikin as well as took a posed photo of us Tangoing for about 1 dollar.
Next the bus headed back to the ship, but they dropped people off at Florida street and here is where all the fun shopping began!
I bought a new jacket that says Argentina on it, much like that Italy zip up jacket I have. I also bought another matte cup which was better than the dried pumpkin cup I had previously bought as well as I bought a bunch of candy.
Susan mostly bought a cute sundress as well as a wallet. But we just had the greatest time in the world shopping on this street, it was very nice.
We rushed back via taxi to get to the ship only to be rushed eating and quickly getting ready for our 4:30 excursion to the Tango show.
During lunch I gave a worker the evil eye because she wouldn't let me pickup my own drink from the stack of them because in order to prevent any future breakout of stomach flu, they are taking extra precautions.
Susan snipped at her too about how we are in a rush and it wasn't like we were touching our hands on all of the cups.
Once we arrived to this beautiful bar/basement for the show and it got underway we were very impressed with the professionalism of the dancers and the excellent live music including a full 5 piece orchestra and an accordion. We got served a few wine beverages as well and I snuck some video of the show for your viewing pleasure even though they would yell at you if you got caught taping.
The second half of the show consisted of Argentinean folklore music live and I had chills down my back the whole time! I even bought a CD afterward of them. Second, they had a Gaucho who essentially took these yo-yo type strings and hits the ground with them, one in each hand. He does a fast dance and criss-crosses the yo-yo's without touching each other. Really it's tough to describe what the gauchos do in this dance, but this guy was a showman to say the least and it was one of the most enjoyable things I have seen live in a while. He had so much skills.
Finally they ended with the Tango of All Tangos with the famous Tango song.
We were giddy after the show because we enjoyed it so much and I was acting like a goofball in the bus saying weird things.
When we got back to the boat we had a fantastic dinner with our friends at the formal dinner and I bought
Susan one rose for Valentines day and told her that each year I will get her one more for as long as I live.
What a great day we had in Buenos Aires and we cant wait to fly back for the shopping and cheap travels here in Argentina.
