My friend Abby, who lives on the same floor in the building in Manhattan where I used to live, has been wanting to come down to Argentina to visit me for as long as I've been living here.
We started our trip via Santiago de Chile because all the flights to Buenos Aires were full. We arrived in Chile with absolutely no plans, no hotel reservations and I had no clothes with me except what I was wearing, of course having assumed I would be home in BA with an overflowing closet to my disposal. We arranged a room at the Crown Plaza downtown (a beautiful hotel) and took advantage of the day- walking around downtown, climbing up to the castle at Santa Lucia and having dinner at the really cute restaurant "Como agua por Chocolate" in the Bella Vista neighborhood. The next day we took a tram up the San Cristobal mountain to the Virgin Mary statue and then a cable car across the mountain and down the other side. That same day we jumped on a GOL flight to Buenos Aires, only arriving a day later than originally planned and having taken in a new city.
Our week in Buenos Aires was a whirlwind! The weekend we arrived we took the train out to Tigre and took a boat tour through the large river system that makes up the islands of that area. We also went to the out door market in Palermo.
On monday morning I returned to the gym (thank god!) and of course Augusto-my personal trainer- was there ready to kick my ass. It's incredible how fast you can see results when you have someone pushing you so hard! I worked out with him every morning this week and spent a lot of the week with sore muscles. Love it!
Last night Abby took the direct flight on American Airlines back to JFK and I took the flight to Atlanta. I'm sitting here in the lounge now in Atlanta waiting for my flight to JFk.
On Tuesday I leave for Abu Dhabi for two weeks. I am so excited!!!
Ok, I'll upload some photos of this past week later today or tomorrow.
un beso
Sunday, March 16
Saturday, March 1
Opera Town
I totally forgot to blog about the second"after-office" party I went to. Ok, imagine it's Saturday night late, around 3 am, and you're in a club packed with people dancing, drinking and going wild. It's getting toward the end of the night and people are scouring the dance floor, looking for potential hookups.
Ok, now imagine this scene but it's not Saturday-it's Wednesday and it's 9pm and people are for the most part in their work clothes. Except for a few girls who changed in their cubicles after work. Wow. It's called Opera Town and it was definitely an experience. It's like a company Christmas party gone way wrong. I went with my friend Laura and her friend Josh. Here's some pics.
out to dinner
Last week in BA I went out to a great restaurant with a group of students from my spanish school (that's my spanish teacher on my right). I only stayed an hour or so since my friends Nahuel and Mariano (that's them on my couch) were coming over to my place later to tell me all about their wicked Brazilian adventures. By the way, Happy Birthday Nau!!! besos
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