A few minutes later I looked a little closer to the picture and saw the child was wearing a tie AND had a nametag that said "Samuelo." So I basically told this man his son looks like a very pretty girl... Hopefully he chalked it up ot my terrible grasp of the Spanish language! :D
When we arrived at La Boca, we had lunch at one of the typical Caminito tourist lunch places where there is a stage with live music and tango dancers you can watch as you eat. The food is never impressive (I had the WORST gnocchi I had ever tasted in my life :) ), but the entertainment is nice. Caminito is so packed with these type of restaurants that walking down the street is like listening to dueling tango bands. Caminito always has a big "tourist trap" feel, but this year it seemed even worse than the first year we went. Fewer stores are selling the nice artisan goods, more are selling typical tourist junk like magnets, soccer jerseys, etc. Still, the brightly painted buildings, tango music and crazy statues make the area worth a visit.
I pose with one of the tango dancers after lunch. :)
After Caminito, we took a taxi over to Recoleta to visit the cemetary. The Recoleta cemetary is less a cemetary by our standards, and more a city in miniature. It is fourteen acres of mausoleums, every one of them unique, built side by side with paths going through them like little mini streets. Evita is buried here, and people still to this day bring flowers to her grave. Some of the mausoleums have fallen into charming disrepair if the family line has died out; each mausoleum is maintained individually by the family. Others are as large as a small house and have their own chapels inside. The cemetary is also home to quite a few cats lounging around on the mausoleums, under the bushes, and leaping over our heads as we walked between the rows.
El Cemetario de Recoleta.
One of the resident cats at the cemetary.
Evita's tomb.
An old mausoleum I liked.
After Recoleta we headed back to Palermo to do a bit of shopping. I have an essential store that I visit every year: Palito Bombon Vestite. It is a really cute and unique boutique store that is not too expensive - I always get really fun and funky clothes there. I bought a retro-looking sundress and a screen printed wrap shirt.
For dinner we walked to a fondue restaurant called la Rosadita. We were seated by ourselves in a little indoor loft above the restaurant. We started with a cheese fondue with loads of stuff to dip in it. We were nine people, and we ordered two fondues that were supposed to feed eight, but when it arrived appeared to be enough food for twenty... Two huge bowls of melted cheese with bread, chicken, steak, mushrooms, hush puppies-ish things, tomatoes, potatoes and more! Gavin accidentally dropped a piece of cheesy bread into his wine glass, prompting JD to proclaim, "Now that was a fon-DON'T!" :) Despite stuffing ourselves with enough cheese to feed a small country, we had been looking forward to chocolate fondue dessert all day... :) This time we only ordered one order for four to feed all nine of us. Good thing; the chocolate came with two huge plates of brownie bites, small cookies, plums, bananas, lemon bars, apples, biscotti... The chocolate was SO good - really dark and rich! Best chocolate fondue I have ever had!! Almost had the edge of a hazelnut flavor, like nutella.
The night was clear, beautiful and warm. Perfect for a romatic hand in hand walk to end our day in Buenos Aires.
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