BUENOS AIRES!

HI EVERYONE!!
IN BUENOS AIRES AT THE MOMENT AND HAVE BEEN SINCE FRIDAY. B.A IS THE CAPITAL OF ARGENTINA, IT IS A TOTAL OF 200 SQUARE KMS AND FULL OF STREET MARKETS, RESTAURANTS, FANCY HOTELS AND MOST OF ALL, LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE!! ON SATURDAY WE DIDN END UP DOING MUCH, WE WANDERED ROUND TOWN AND WHILE MUM AND ZOE WERE IN A PHONE BOOTH, ME AND DAD WERE LOOKING IN A SHOP ACROSS THE ROAD AND MUM AND <ZOE LEFT!! WE ALL WANDERED ROUND LOOKING FOR EACH OTHER, AFTER WAITING OUTSIDE THE PHONE BOOTH FOR 1/2 AN HOUR DAD AND I WENT BACK TO THE HOSTEL AND WAITED FOR THEM TO FIGURE OUT WE DONE THE SMART THING : ) AND WENT BACK TO THE HOSTEL TO MEET THEM THERE. AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR OR SO WE HEARD A KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND DISCOVERED WE BEEN PRATICALLY CHASING EACH OTHER!! WENT OUT TO A SORT OF INDOOR STREET MARKET AND FOUND A RESTAURANT FULL OF PEOPLE AND CHEAP COMBOS. ATE LUNCH THERE AND AS PART OF THE COMBO GOT DESSERT!YUM! EXPLORED THE STREETS A BIT MORE THEN DECIDED TO GO ON THE SUBWAY AS IT WOULD BE ZOE AND I FIRST TIME!! B.A IS THE BIGGEST CITY IE BEEN AND SAME WITH ZOE TOO! SUBWAY WAS COOL AND NOT AS PACKED AS WE THOUGHT, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO LONDON MUM  AND DAD BOTH SAID. HOME TO SKYPE A FEW PEOPLE AND CHILLAX. POPPED OUT TO THE SUPERMARKET AND BROUGHT ALL WE NEED FOR SPAG BOL, YUM! COOKED AND ATE THAT THEN  WENT TO BED FOR A EARLYISH NIGHT.


SUNDAY WE DECIDED NOT TO GET LOST AND CAUGHT THE SUBWAY TO SAN TELMO WHERE THEY HOLD A  FAIR SELLING ANTHIG FROM ANTIQUES TO SUGARED PEANUTS THAT`S HELD EVERY SUNDAY AND RUNS ALONG THE COBBLE STONE ROAD THAT`S CLOSED FOR THE DAY. DAD BROUGHT A NECKLACE THAT MUM LIKED FOR HER X-MAS PREZZIE BUT THAT WAS ALL. HAD LUNCH AT A LITTLE CAFE SURROUNDED BY CUTE OLD BUILDINGS AND HOUSES. ME AND ZOE HAD A SUBMARINE: A GLASS OF HOT MILK SERVED WITH A CHOCOLATE BAR THAT YOU DUNK INTO THE MILK AND STIR IT ROUND TILL THE CHOCOLATE MELTS, YUM!!!! WANDEDERED ROUND THE MARKETS SOME MORE AND BROUGHT SOME SUGARED PEANUTS THAT ARE RUMOURED TO BE DELISH! THEY WERE! CAUGHT A SUBWAY BACK TO FLORIDA STREET (OUR HOSTEL`S STREET) AND WANDERED ROUND THE SHOE SHOS TRYING TO FIND SOME GOOD COVERED SHOES FOR ZOE FOR EUROPE, NO SUCH LUCK AS ITŚ SUMMER HERE AND ALL THE SHOES ARE STRAPPY AND JANDALS OR CROCS, IF NOT THAT THEN ZOE WILL FIND SOME THING WRONG WITH THEM! WENT BACK TO THE HOSTEL, READ A BIT BUT NONE OF US WERE AT ALL HUNGRY FOR DINNER AND T WAS GETTING QUITE LATE SO WE DECIDED TO GRAB A SUNDAE FROM BURGER KING (OF COURSE THEY HAVE ON HERE!!) SO MUCH FOR FAST FOOD, AFTER WAITING FOR DECADES IN THE QUEUE WE FINALLY GOT WHAT WE WANTED, GOBBLED IT DOWN THEN WENT TO BED.


MONDAY WE WENT ON A STRANGE BUS RIDE, A DOUBLE DECKER BUS BUT ON THE TOP LEVEL NO ROOF AND HEAD PHONES THAT WERE ALL BROKEN. THE ONE THAT WORKED TOLD YOU ALL ABOUT THE CITY AND BUILDINGS AS YOU DROVE PAST THEM, VERY TOURISTY!!! OUR FIRST STOP WE WERE AT A LAKE THAT WAS VER Y POLLUTED AND SMELT SOOO BAD! SAW A FEW PEOPLE DOING THE TANGO IN THE STREET THEN BROUGHT A DRINK COS WE WERE ALL PRATICALLY DYING OF THIRST. WENT TO CATCH A THE BUS TO THE NEXT STOP BUT WHILE WE WERE WAITING FOR IT MUM WENT TO BUY SOME EMPANADAS  FOR LUNCHAND AKE A PHONE CALL THE BUS ACTUALLY CAME AND ME, ZOE AND DAD COULDN`T GET ON OF-COURSE!!THE NEXT BUS TOOK AN HOUR TO COME SO WE WERE SITTING BY THE ROAD SIDE FOR AGES! UUGH!WE FINALLY GOT ON THE BUS AND STOPPEDFOR LUNCH AT A KIOSCO THAT SERVED LOTS OF ARGENTINIAN FOOD. ME AND ZOE HAD CHORIPAN HICH IS SAUSAGE IN BREAD BUT REALLY NICE. NEXT STOP WAS AT A CEMETRY WHERE LOTS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE WERE BURIED ONLY TO FIND THAT THEY WERE IN LITTLE HOUSES AND IN SOME YOU SEE THE COFFIN! SCARY! WE AL FELT LIKE AN ICE CREAM... AND GUESS WHAT?! NEAR THE CEMETARY THERE WAS AHARD ROCK CAFE!!!!!! I HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS BUT MUM AND DAD SAID IT'S A AWESOME CAFE THAT PLAYS LOTS OF MUSIC AND IS A REALLY FMAOUS CAFE, YOU CAN ONLY GO TO THEM IN LONDON A ND SOME PLACES IN USA (PROBABLY OTHER PLACES BUT I DON'T WHERE!) ANY WAY IT'S REAAAALLY FAMOUS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE GO THERE! HAD A REALLY NICE ICE-CREAM THEN WALKED TO THE SUBWAY STATION AND CAUGHT A SUBWAY BACK TO THE HOSTEL. AT THE HOSTEL WE CHILLAXED FOR A WHILE THEN WENT IN SEARCH FOR A PLACE TO EAT. BUMPED INTO A RESTAURANT THAT WE WERE MEANING TO GO TO THAT WAS THE OLDEST CAFE STILL RUNNING IN  THE WHOLE OF ARGENTINA, IT STARTED IN 1858!!! WOW! WE THEN FOUND OUT THERE WAS A TANGO SHOW STARTING AT 10:30PM THAT WAS QUITE CHEAP COMPARED TO SOME WE HAD SEEN ADVERTISED. WE GULPED DOWN OUR DINNER, BROUGHT OUR TICKETS AND WENT IN. WOW!! IT WAS AMAZING THE COUPLE DOING THE TANGO WERE DOING LOTS OF REALLY QUICK DANCE STEPS SO IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS BEING FAST FORWARDED. THERE WERE TWO SINGERS SINGING ARGENTINIAN SONGS AND A GREAT LITTLE BAND WITH THE GRAND PIANO, ACCORDIAN AND ELECTRIC GUITAR, THE WERE REALLY GOOD AND THE TIMING WAS BRILLIANT!! ENDED UP GOING BACK AT 12:30 ALL REALLY TIRED BUT HAD A GRAT TIME! MISSING EVERY ONE HEAPS AND PREPARING FOR LOTS OF COLD SOO AS IT IS SNOWING IN LONDON!! BETTER MAKE THE MOST OF THE HEAT!! HAVING TONS OF FUN AND HAVING LOTS OF ONCE IN A LIFE TIME EXPERIENCES!! ADIOS!!