and we did it! We arrived to Buenos Aires :)

arriving to Buenos Aires

They were dropping off everyone. Finally we arrived to our hotel and we checked in. During the drive we decided to make the city tour next day in the morning. So we were having the afternoon free. My first idea was: Shopping at the Outlets!!! But it was already 4pm by the time we were ready.

our Subway Stop was Lima, hahaha - so fun!

I asked at the front desk where the closest Exchange house was. We were staying at Rivadavia St and the closes was in Florida, which was about 6 blocks away. We started walking and finally arrived to the Exchange House. There was a long line. We did it and when we tried to exchange the US$, they asked us for our documents.

The Obelisco at night

Well it was almost 6pm and the Outlets close at 6pm, so it was pointless going to the Outlets at that time. Time to change plans, mmm. Instead of going to the Outlet we went to Palermo. Iris and Mike (innotech) recommended me to go there for trendy and unique stuff. Mike recommended taking a look at Humawaca – all leather stuff, but not the common designs. We were walking around the streets and arrived to Plaza Cortazar (ex Serrano).

nice!

We haven’t had lunch that day, we were so excited about the travel that we forgot about it. It was almost 8pm and we were getting hungry. There were a lot of bars there, but my mom didn’t like that idea very much, so we went back to the hotel. Also the restaurants don’t serve food until 8pm. We arrived to the hotel, left our bags and went out looking for a place to have dinner. We were walking around when I recognized a small place. I have been there before with Blair! Just a couple of months away, hahaha. It didn’t look amazing, but the food is very good. It was what they call: “tenedor libre” (free fork) and means it’s a “all you can eat for…” I had a lot of veggies (fresh, grilled) and the Argentinian Empanadas and my mom meat and some salad. Well, I didn’t want to eat much, but couldn’t help having desserts. I was getting some fruit and saw a purple one, like if it were a beat. I asked the waiter and he told me it was pear with red wine. I don’t like pear very much, but this one was really tasty uhmmmm. 

After a nice meal and filling so guilty because all we ate, we decided to take a walk around and enjoy a nice night. We also went to a cybercafé in order to make a couple of phone calls. We just went back to the hotel. We were a bit tired and had to wake up the next day early. The tour operator was supposed to pick us up at 8:45am for the city tour. I decided not to use the elevator, just to climb the stairs. Almost convinced my mom, but at the end she decided not to follow the crazy girl, hahaha.

Oh! I was forgetting. We were supposed to stay in a bedroom for 2, but they gave us a suite for same price, hahaha. So we had an extra room just for our suitcases and shopping. We were lucky ;)