Last night began with a long walk to the restaurant Juana M, mostly known by the locals. It is located in the basement of a former orphanage and at night it's frequented by trendy young locals. The entire restaurant is lit by candlelight and it is a wonderful way to spend a leisurely dinner. Of course, dinner doesn't start until 8:30 p.m. so we old folks were there early. It wasn't long before every table was filled.
The walk was especially enjoyable because it was a warm evening. We walked through the ritzy part of town where the Hyatt Hotel is located with Armani and Ralph Lauren and other upscale shops. It was so lovely a jacket wasn't even necessary. After dinner we took a taxi back to the apartment - thinking that the $10 peso taxi fee was worth it. I know that I'm boring you with the prices here but it's so exciting to enjoy so many fabulous experiences without paying high prices.
It's Saturday so when we saw that it was raining (the first since we've been here) it was an excuse to be ultra lazy. At noon Rosanna and I finally made it to two grocery stores to pick up essentials (like wine) and also buy ingredients for cooking dinner here tonight. Now we're enjoying listening to the tango music and we've finished lunch made from leftovers from last night's restaurant dinner.
Each day brings some laughs like trying to figure out how to use the oven. It does not have temperatures - it's just "low", "medium" and "high". The clothes washer is a combo washer and drier so one load of clothing takes about 3 hours to finish and generally we have to hang everything out in the air to finish drying. No one has the courage to figure out how the small dishwasher works so we happily hand wash and dry.
Even though it's raining it's the warmest day of the week (20 C) so the windows are open and the fresh rain scented air smells wonderful.
I'm starting my second James Patterson novel, Ron is reading and Rosanna and I are going to challenge each other at Scrabble so we're truly enjoying a lazy day in Buenos Aires.
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