Day One

So this afternoon, after settling into our cozy hostel/hotel:

We set out to walk part of the city, explore, and get a bit to eat. After walking a good distance, past all the yummy looking resturant district mind you, we searched high and low for a pizzeria for lunch. After wandering several blocks we finally came across a little resturant and ate lots of bread, pizza, orange fanta, and malbec wine (Argentina's famous type of grape is the malbec). We probably annoyed our waiter... being the loud, non spanish speaking people we are... but we will get the hang of it soon.

We did have a funny/scary moment today. After lunch we proceeded to walk around some more, talking pictures as we went. One of my fellow students saw a license plate he thought was funny... so he decided to snap a picture. All of the sudden a woman jumps out of the car yelling at him for taking the picture. Of course neither one of us knew a word she was saying... except for photographia and polica... YIKES! I just couldn't help but laugh... it was only our first day and someone almost went to jail! Or at least in maybe some seriuos trouble. Of course the lady wasn't happy at us...we tried to explain that we were students and the photographer deleted the picture, but she still wasn't happy. Of course it probably didn't help that I was laughing the whole time. So I finally called over our "expert" spanish speaker to help clear things us. We got it sorted out... mostly. She did call over he husband... who flashed us his police badge... whoops! Apperantly it is a big deal to snap pictures of license plates... its the way that people steal cars here in Argentina. Who knew?!? It was all cleared up in the end... but I still laugh thinking about it. All this trouble just because the license plate started with the letters VEG. Ha.

On our way back we stopped at the Gelato shop.... mmmmm gelato! It was sooo yummy!

A few of us old people headed back for the hotel to relax and take a nap... and thats where I am now... about to fall asleep... at 6pm.

Tomorrow we have a large day planned and hopefully there will be a lot of picture taking. Until then, enjoy a few from today.

And these are for my fellow Twilight fans!