Buenas Dias from Buenos Aires

After a seven hour layover in Houston Texas - the only highlight being making friends with two UVIC students, and meeting a store owner who was very sociable we proceeded on our way and survived a ten hour flight to arrive in Buenos Aires. Now, we had booked a free shuttle that would have taken us to our hostel but by the time we were past customs etc we realized we did not want to wait another 3 hours for it to arrive. No problem. We hopped on the local bus (along with our Victorian friends, a Finish Guy and an old German man) and for 2 peso's (compared to a 100 peso taxi which was the other choice) we surveyed the country side and chatted with our new friends. The organized for the bus driver to tell us when to get off, however this was obviously miscommunicated because after all the english speaking folks had gotten off, we were still waiting for his que. At one point he looked back at us and we thought it was time - we said "Palermo?" and about five other passengers said "no no no no!!!!" we had passed our stop a long time ago! Oops. A nice man helped us out and we were soon on a stuffy, hot subway and arrived at the hostel approximatly thirty minutes later.

We were met by Jason and honestly it was fabulous to see a familiar face. He laughed at our three hour plus adventure. It had taken him thirty minutes in a cab just a few days before. But hey- we had a better adventure!

We have settled into our hostel - visited with Jason on the sunny rooftop patio, walked around the neighbour hood, eaten dinner at a local cafe, practiced some practical phrases (and some not so practical) from our ancient phrase books and enjoyed a very deep sleep. K and I are sleeping in a six bedroom dorm and our four roomates enjoyed a night of clubbing - we were awoken at around five AM when they arrived home and talked loudly but other then that I feel well rested and ready for a day out and about.

P.S.Mom... I ate breakfast.

Love S and K