We are but a few weeks out from the end of our trip now. We arrived in Buenos Aires to finally meet good family friend Juan. He lives with his brother Joaquin in a nice flat overlooking a pretty park in Recoleta, one of the nicest neighborhoods in BA. Our goal for the next week or two is to find someone to buy the van. We love the van and don't want to sell it, and this means that our trip is coming to an end, but it needs to be done so we don't have to sell it to a garage for spare parts. We ended up having a lot of time to look around BA while we got busy selling. Recoleta is home to one of Buenos Aires' most famous points of interest, the enormous Recoleta Cemetery. This is the final resting place for many famous Argentinians: presidents, prominent businessmen, and even Argentina's most famous lady, Eva Peron.
The city center has many other points of interest. We visited the main plaza, home of the Casa Rosada or "Pink House". This is the presidential palace, where the President works but does not sleep apparently (except after occaisional big nights out clubbing presumably). There is a balcony over looking the plaza where Evita used to address her throngs of admirers.
We took a one hour boat trip into the delta of the River Plate to visit Juan's friends Pablo and Andres. We stayed a night at their new bed and breakfast venture, which will be opening soon. They took excellent care of us, feeding us lots of asado and wine, and teaching us new card games.
We also celebrated Kellie's 29th birthday. Torrey had an extra special day planned involving banana pancakes, flowers, a theme park, a large pyrotechnics display, pisco sours, a small party and a cake (which he only remembered at 11.56pm). Kellie was taught the traditional Argentinian way to eat a birthday cake, which is to put three fingers inside it first and make three wishes.
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