Our last day in beautiful BA. It only took a week and we really started to feel at home. We enjoyed un cafe con leche y dos medialunas on a sidewalk facing the main plaza in Palermo, and stayed highly entertained by the numerous dog walkers (how does 1 human persevere over 7 leashes crossing?). And how do they pick up after them while keeping the rest under control? Maybe they don´t...
We also reflected on the tango show at Cafe Tortoni that we had watched the night before. It was sassy and slapstick - what a great combination!
A walk through our favorite park for more feline viewing and to the MALBA: Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de BA. It was fantastic, full of interesting art, possibly Olivia´s first Frida piece viewing, and was in a gorgeous new building somewhat reminiscent of the MMoCA. We said good-bye to our dear hostel and then jumped to plane. Interesting: our less than 2 hour flight was made much more fun by watching silent video of clips of practical jokes from the Montreal Comedy Festival. The whole plane was laughing; we had formed a community!
Mendoza is not what we expected in some ways. It is quite commercial with lots of very busy streets with tons of shopping. The metro area of city is 900,000 population, so to get the quaint wine country feel you have to get about 10km away. We had a fab time at an old tavern for dinner, dining on lomitos (steak sandwiches... the meat adventure continues) and drinking vino tinto de la casa from little PENGUINS. Yes, to our delight, the pitches are traditionally shaped like penguinos! So fun we had to get 2.
Again, thanks for all the comments. We think of you all often and are so glad to be keeping in touch.
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Montreal "Just for Laughs" Festival? Outrageous! We saw that on our honeymoon .... zany and a little weird. How fun that they ran clips on your flight. Love, Kim
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