This weekend was the Semana Santa or Holy Week or Easter Week or Purim depending on what religion/nationality you are. Down here, that means a FIVE day weekend which unfortunately we didn't really get but it did make the streets much more managable for our Saturday afternoon bike tour (we got Friday off, but it was kinda a waste after a night at the alamo). The bike tour was great, went down to Puero Madera (BA's answer to Darling Harbor), a big ecological park, the big touristy festival / market / tangorade in La Boca and then the historical sites like the presidents house (the pink house??) and the national cathedral.
Puerto Madera
Tango Dancers in La Boca (Spanish for The Boca)Sunday we had a fun Easter brunch at the manager's (Abe) wife's family's house which was really nice. She has a pretty big family here, they all speak varying degrees of English (and we all speak varying degrees of Spanish) and are all very very nice and pretty funny. Had homemade tiramisu (theres is a huge Italian influence here), drank Mate and told some guy studying to be a preacher that I was Jewish. All in all a successful day.
Things are getting a bit busier at work, we're starting to get a routine and (more importantly) some responses back to the requests we had sent out. We're still looking for a permanent place to live (which has gotten more pressing since they moved me and the other consultant into the same room - to which the ADP manager said 'at least you are finally roughing it') and have some promising options. The weather has been absolutely goregous, we've stumbled upon a festival or a protest every day and just went out for drinks with a really cool girl from the office who said (and I start my posting of cheesy quotes) "I like to be surprised by life".
Vale
God at the Recoleta Cemetery
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Sweet title for that photo. I too like to be surprised by life
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