We arrived in Buenos Aires on Sunday morning, followed streams of people on and off the metro and made our way to Milhouse, our new home for the next few days. It's extremely easy to miss this place, it's just a big black door on the street with a little white button to press to get in. It could be anything, but at first glance you would not even consider it to be the hostel that it is. Fully equipped with 6 floors, a basement with a big kitchen, a bar with a pool table (which has been our search of choice most nights we go out), spiral stairs, laundry service and it's right downtown.
We've spent the better part of our days walking around the central part of the city, enjoying the European-like architecture, checking out shops and drinking espresso. Today's destination was the cemetery, and wow! the amount of money and thought that goes into a place that holds your dead corpse is remarkable. Some of them had multiple floors, big statues on them or even the family coming to enjoy lunch inside. And there's row after row of this. It's an interesting concept and some extremely beautiful ones, but also slightly crazy.
I'm writing this at 1 in the morning before I fall asleep. But I'm going to bed early, there's only 3 of us in the room out of 8, and we're only here because one has class in the morning, another guy is sick and I've got an eye infection that I don't want to spread. The party's still going on strong downstairs.
There are a few things that sum up Buenos Aires: food, bed bugs, wine, the tango show, Nico and Binny and the Dutch Girls.
We spent most of our time looking for or eating food. Jeremy and I must have gone to the same All You Can Eat place at least 4 or 5 times. Then there was the Chinese Restaurant across the street which had the most amazing soup .... and that´s not even mentioning how many times we smuggled Uggis into the hostel.
Shout out to Nico and Beni .... two guys we "apparently" met in Mendoza and then ended up sharing a room with in MillHouse. Check out Nico´s blog http://nechemya.blogspot.com/ and Binny´s Myspace http://www.myspace.com/binnykagedan Now we can´t seem to get rid of Nico, he´s pretty much part of the family. ;)
The tango show was absolutely phenomenal, the dancers were sexy and perfect, the lights were extremely well done and the music was to die for. The only thing that could´ve made it better was if we had splurged for the dinner and the show .... we were all starving which threw off the mood just slightly.
We met two Dutch girls, Elleke and Mirjam in Rosario and parted ways not thinking that we´d meet up again, but we ran into them again in MillHouse, in fact they were staying in the room next door! I don´t know what to say about these girls other than the fact that we´re all very fond of them and we had a hell of a time together. (now when I talk about "we" it will typically include Nico)
I know this took forever to update ... it´s not as easy as it sounds to post a blog all of the time. It´s a hard life down here. :p
Lots of love,
Jenn, Jeremy (& Nico)
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