In Buenos Aires

We arrived safely in B.A. yesterday afternoon after a long and cramped flight from Calgary to Toronto to Santiago to B.A. We spent what remained of the day wandering in San Telmo (where our hostel is) and sleeping. Today we were a bit more adventurous and headed to book bus tickets and see the city center. We love the old buildings and the busy streets. Plaza de Mayo was nice and we strolled the shopping distract and sat in the sun in a park. Our first impression of B.A. is that its much more developed than other countries we´ve travelled to. Its sort of luxurious to be able to wander in a city like this. It has a subway (which is just as nice as the Ctrain), and amazing icecream! Mmm... and the pastries! Jon is in heaven and may not want to go anywhere else. Nice as it is though, we are both looking forward to seeing how different the rest of the country is.

We are going to spend the rest of the day sitting on the patio in the sun and testing out a bottle of Malbec we bought ($3). We´ll likely have a siesta as well, this is vacation after all!

Tomorrow we are taking an overnight bus to Puerto Iguazu to see the falls. We splurged and bought "cama" class seats (which fold into beds). They are on the second story of the bus and looked quite comfy from the pictures I saw. From what I understood, food will be served and movies shown. I think it will be nicer than our plane ride here!