Well I know it's been rough without any new blog updates but I am back!! See what had happened was...my mom came in to town for 10 days and then I had went on a 20 hr bus ride to South Argentina and didn't have any internet access. Yeah I know...EXCUSES.
So much to update you on and so much to show you that I don't know where to start. My mom had a great time. The first day we went to San Telmo. We were starving...well at least I was, so we went to this random restaurant in la Plaza Dorrego. The food was ok but what made the experience great was the jazz band that just happened to be playing there that night.
The next day we went to Recoleta. There were a bunch of restaurants in the area we were in who all were offering great 3 course lunch deals, complete with vino and cafe (gotta love it). We at at Lola's, which has a "Menu para Mujers," a Lady's Special that was the best deal I found out of all the restaurants, not to mention the food was pretty good.
Despues...I mean after, we went to the Recoleta Cemetery. I didn't have a great desire to see tombstone but it was one those "must-do" things so I saw it as my duty to at least check it out. Some tombs were quite elaborate while others were dilapidated and just plain creepy. I took a picture of a really scary one. The old rusty iron doors of the tomb were slightly ajar, exposing it's neglected insides. There were cob webs on the ceiling and weeds growing thru the ground and the coffin...was covered in dust... Unfortunately I don't have the picture of this tomb because as we were leaving we saw a sign that warned us not to take pictures of the tombs and I didn't want to take any chance of the warning being enforced by some angry soul waking me up in the middle of the night...LOL.
The next day we went to Palermo and went to this restaurant that was recommended to me called Don Julio. I had an amazing plate of lamb. It was tender and was sopped in a date gravy...yummy!! Mom didn't have such a spectacular meal but it was decent. If you come out here and seek good food, we have found that is best to stay away from the chicken and tomate sauces. They are just not very tasty.
On Wednesday we visited the MALBA (Museum de Arte Latinamerica, Buenos Aires). I am realizing more and more that I am not a museum person but we enjoyed our walk thru the museum nonetheless, after sharing a really good jamon y queso croissant (as sustenance was needed after our Zumba class just an hour before). If you ever come here, remember that there is reduced admission on Wednesday.
All in all we had a great beginning to our week and we were just getting started. (Sidenote: I know there are a lot of pictures of us at restaurants but we didn't stuff our faces the whole time
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