Well this is well overdue but has escaped me since I have been home. Tuesday, March 25th was our last day in South America. We got up and did a quick wine shopping run for bottles to take home. We got them and raced back to pack them in our checked luggage which we were leaving at the hotel behind the front desk so we didn’t have to carry everything around with us during the day.
We went for a walk down towards the La Recoleta Cemetery, one of the most famous in South America. It was full of the elite of Buenos Aires and their mausoleums.
There was no expense left out with incredible ornate statues and sculptures, with each mausoleum holding multiple family members. The most recently famous one was that of Familia Durate where Eva Perron (Evita) was laid in 1997.
We stopped for lunch at a little pizza place for lunch and there was a tree full of pink, fall orchids above the patio.
We wandered through a grocery store and bought all the local foods we had tried and wanted to bring home before cabbing back to the hotel and packing up. We tried to take a cab to the bus station to get to the airport. But somewhere between the cabbie’s English and my Spanish we agreed that he’d take us to the airport for the same price as the bus would. The travel home was spending our final pesos on dinner before the 10.5 hour flight back to Houston, a couple hours there, and the 4 hour flight back to Calgary.
It was an incredible trip as far south as both Mike and I are likely to get in our lives. The things we saw, the people we met, and the food and drink we had were all incredible and part of an extraordinary experience.
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