Day One: The rest...

Our first semi-serious walk was only about 4 hours long, but it seemed much longer to me. We began by walking through the botanical gardens, hanging out with the Hermanos de Julio (see photo of statuesque black cat). This garden is about 3 blocks from our front door, so we'll be taking many walks through it, I'm sure.

En route to getting an obelisk thingy out of the way (a monument to the unsuccessful first attempt at founding Buenos Aires, located on the famous Avenida 9 de Julio, named for the date of national independence), we stopped by to check out the medical library. It was in a nice big parthenony building next to a torn up park with a military horse-riding guy in the middle of it. It was too torn up to read the plaque revealing the identity of Señor Horsie, but I'm sure he was a wonderful man, and I means him no disrespeck.


The library was closed, but it looked like it would probably contain a lot of useful books. So that was satisfying.

The Avenida 9 de Julio itself was an amazing mass of moving cars; a complete waste of time, in other words. The obelisk was pretty big, I guess.

We then made our way to the subte (metro) stop that would take us home, but we found that, for one day only, the entire line was not running in order to allow for the institution of something new. Our Spanish broke down on the key noun revealing what this new thing was, but I'm sure it's going to be awesome.

Complete day number one draws to a close after a mediocre dinner and two 1L Heinies at two very different bars. It's all so weird, I don't know where to begin. But I know where to end. Right here, mis hermanos.