Let's go to Gleu

Well, we have been in Buenos Aires for our 5th week...or something like that. We came here from Chile, escaped the earthquakes as you know, and have been kickin' it at la casa de LINDSEY MURRAY. We even have traveled to the lake district in patagonia and back. First, before we tell you about that adventure here are some highlights from our time Buenos Aires.

-playing flip cup with argentines and trash talking in spanglish.

-frequenting LA MODERNA in San Telmo. This place makes those most delicious empanadas ever! free delivery too...even though it's right down the street.

-San Telmo market. On Sundays, San Telmo feels like a circus with all the antique dealers, tango in the street, artiansans everywhere, accordians, evening african drum parade, people cuddling up with their mates, and endless homemade craftwork.

-La Bomba del Tiempo. Weekly event, drum troupe that blasts beats to make your feet move. They rotate instruments and the monday we went there was a guest trumpet player and thumb pianist..that's right this dude was wailing on his tiny thumb piano and it was projected on a giant jumbo screen for everyone to see. Located in a warehouse type venue, makes for a hippy-dippy paradise.

-Barrio Chino...ate some dank chinese food, wandered into some shops with fun little trinkets and Hannah bought a kalidescope.

-AMERIKA!!! craziest club, gay-club we have ever been too. Serously, this place in nutz. You pay like 60 pesos to get in, but you can drink for free all night. Beer, champaign, gancia, water, whatever you want. The night we went, after drinking and dancing for a few hours, the sprinklers went on and it was rained. At first, we all thought this was awesome and an epic way to cool down for the night, but then the burning started. It seriously felt like acid rain! Also, we brought our goofy australian friend Sascha and he described the gay scene the best. "Whoa, I keep seeing dudes making out with dudes and then I thought I saw two girls making out, but then I realized one was a tranny. This place is gay." Exactly, this was the place where gay men go to party.

-Recoleta Cemetary. This is where Evita lays to rest. Cemetary cats, beautifully decorated tombs, etc.

-St. PATTY'S DAY! We ventured out into the night, in the rain because argentines don't play in the rain like gringos. We found lines snaking around the block to get into all the irish pubs. We finnally got into a pirate themed bar and after some intense explaining, we ordered and received irish car bombs. They were tasty! We also went to a party store earlier that day to purchase sparkly green leprechaun hats, oversized green sunglasses and tiny green hats...we became obsessed and wear them all the time now.

-One of our favorite things to do is make epic feasts at Lindsey's house. We are all about the following: empanada factory, pizza factory, spicy bolivian soup factory, and one night we made nachos! we have to add factory on the end of everything because we always make so much food.

-One day we rented a 4 person bike car and peddeled around in Palermo. We had to take turns because only two people could peddle in the back. I'm sure we looked quite ridiculous in our old, junky bike car amongst the serious sweaty joggers and people working out in the park.

-La Boca. By 1:00 p.m. we had already gotten lost in the bad part of town trying to find a museum...but then we found our way back to the colorful side of this burrough.

-NUNCA MAS day

-GLEW. Let's go to GLEW. Let's get some shoes...LET'S PARTY...
This is worth mentioning because Glew is a suberb of BsAs where our friend Gaston lives. Each time we have gone it has been unforgetable...and forgettable at the same time. Somehow we can almost relate to the suburbanites more. Walking with a crew of like 10 people through a park to find a bar in the middle of the night striked a baring resemblence to walking around Iowa City trying to find a party. Our first night we ended up going to a wild suburban party, hannah got crazy and jumped in the pool, reggaetone music blaring. Later, we went to a bar and danced into the morning and had to pass out at Gaston's house and woke up on a futon the next morning to Gaston's mom banging on the door....awkward.