@shitmydadsays is so hilarious

Man, I forgot how funny this guy is.  Here are some gems...

"You sure do like to tailgate people... Right, because it's real important you show up to the nothing you have to do on time."

"I need to change clothes? Wow. That's big talk coming from someone who looks like they robbed a Mervyn's."

"Oh please, you practically invented lazy. People should have to call you and ask for the rights to lazy before they use it."

San Telmo Street Fair

Every Sunday in BsAs, the neighborhood of San Telmo hosts its famed street fair down Calle Defensa.  After getting up late, we rushed over to San Telmo to check it out before our flight to Iguazu.  We had breakfast at this great French place called Petanque (where the waiter took the lengthy spanish menus from us and replaced them with simple english menus that had about only 8 items). 

The street fair was very cool, lots of rastas and Peruvians selling their wares.  We found some cool antique shops down there also.  I wish we could have spent all of Sunday in BA because the Boca Juniors games are on Sundays as well but we had Iguazu Falls to see...

Casa Felix

Possibly our best dinner of the Argentina trip was a special private dining experience at Casa Felix, the home of up-and-coming Chef Diego Felix and his girlfriend Sandra.  Our friend Damian researched the restaurant, set up the reservation and then had to bail because he was sick in Santiago, unable to fly.  By the end of the night though he was well regarded by several people he had never met, because his recommendation was just so superb.

The meal was a five course prix fixe featuring fish alongside a number of vegetarian dishes.  Diego Felix prepares all his dishes with local herbs and spices of which he learned while growing up in his pharmacist/herbalist mother's vegetarian household.  Many of these exotic ingredients he grows in his backyard garden. 

I included some pictures of the hand drawn menu so you can see what was in the weird looking dishes.  I assure you everything was delicious. 

First Couple Days in Buenos Aires

So I am trying to get all the Argentina pictures posted before I leave for Seattle on Wednesday.  There are quite a lot so I apologize in advance if I post other stuff in between the half-dozen or so Argentina posts. 

This trip was so much fun, I really wish we could have stayed longer but our careers in NY, which pay for fun trips like this, could not permit it.  I know I will return to Argentina in the next few years, hopefully for some extended period of time for learning Spanish and skiing the Andes.

This first set of fotos recaps our first couple days in Buenos Aires.  We were staying in Recoleta and we had dinner at this great place called Miranda in Palermo with all these ex-Pats kids.  Josh's friend Milana is studying law for a semester in BsAs right now and she showed us around.   That first day we saw the Recoleta cemetery (where all the important dons are laid to rest) and went to Museo Nacional de Bella Artes.  The next day we walked around near El Congresso, saw la palace de la presidenta and relaxed in Puerto Madero