'Tonite is Gonna Be a Good Night - 'Mazel Tov''

Getting to Buenos Aires
- For starters Nicole could not put her pants on fast enough and we missed the bus to get to the bus station in puerto iguazu...so we took a shady taxi...which katie freaked out a lil bit. So we decided on a ´´cama´´ style bus which means the seats recline 160º and we get a blanket, pillow, and hot dinner. Dont be foooled. the food was completely suspect...breaded ´´mystery meat´´ and a crustless ham sandwhich...katies fav! we also were served acid wine...and the best were the music videos in the morning (nicole was stoked to wake up to her music video rituals) R. Kelley was the best....we slept well...except for the half a dozen interruptions by the argentinian police who inspected everyones passports except ours. After 20hours we arrived in buenos aires in the afternoon. we finally found the ´´subte´´ subway and then proceded to get ourselves lost for 45minutes within 2 blocks from our destination....apparently we make the immpossible ...possible. we failed to book the hostel in buenos aires because we thought it would be vacant...we were wrong. so we were referred to their sister hostel...Milhouse avenida.

Milhouse was a very spacious clean hostel....although nicole thought she was going to collapse the bunk bed on katie everytime she moved. we got our shit together...ate lunch...nicole had a tortilla espana(fyi it is not what u think...it is egg and potato...frittata) and katie had a chicken sandwhich...with the neck still attached...yum! we visited casa rosada (the pink palace which evita gave her speech on the balcony) and saw many historic buildings. Buenos aires is famous for having the widest street (about 12 lanes) and we never managed to cross it all at once...despite our many attempts.

Our first roommate and the ever continuing roommate: Shay (from holland and interning at a law firm) and Asaf (which nicole always called ahkmad- is Israeli and just got out of the army, he also loved the BUffet)FYI Israelis are all over South America. They took us to our first club in buenos aires...Crobar. We arrived at the club at 2am!!!! We had to borrow our new roommates shoes... nicole only made it until about 5:30am due to pre-gameing and being tired. Katie lasted until 7am and saw daylight as she left the club. RIDICULOUS! Nightlife here is crazy...you could go out till noon everyday pretty much. We went to out of couple of times which killed us the next day...slept till like 2 pm. Nicole was the biggest sweetheart bc Katie never made it to breakfast so she would get it for her...TRUE LOVE RIGHT THERE!!

Since we were in Buenos Aires for 9 days here is what we did accorinding to the neighborhood:

City Center¨: Where our hostel was...we ventured to a tango show one night. It was spectacular...although we could have done without the middleage soloist singers...ONLY DANCING PLZ! There was this amazing routine in which the girl was blindfolded the whole time... the guy was throwing & swinging her all over the place. It was amazing!! So to minimize on cost we made dinner a few times at the hostel. On our way home one night from the grocery store... one guy yelled in broken english to Katie..¨Hey those clothes look good on you...they look even better...on my floor¨...umm best compliment ever but really???? she be breaking hearts....haha One day, there was this crazy protest...we think it was bc of the union or something no one seemed to know. But they were shoot off canons and light fires all over the place.

San Telmo: Sunday we checked out the huge market and paroused the crafts and katie got the sweetest bag ever!!! we had lunch at this amazing restaurant, called vintage bar. Nicole had the best pork ribs! a couple nights later we went back and ate parailla (argentinian bbq) with tons of different cuts of meat, potato medley,salad, wine and a chocolate tower...we were stuffed. and we almost got mugged for our doggy bag on the way home by 2 teenage boys, which katie saved nicole by pushing him well in to next week and told him to get the fuck off....yahhhh katie is one bad mama jama!!!!

Palermo: Super cute posh neighborhood (think soho) it hurt katie´s wallet pretty bad...she bought 2 of the cutest dresses!! and nicole bought pants (bri and josh..yes nicole bought the dump pants!) which she wears all the time! and rocked at a bar. we had coffee and lemonade and an apple tart at a cute cafe...very posh. when nicole went to pay...it turned out the bank in puerto iguazu gave her a fake 100....and now has an expensive souvenir. We also had lunch (very late) at Bio an adorable veggie restaurant we stuffed ourselves silly...it was so delicious. we layed out at the botanical gardens one sunny day and watched a teen photo shoot...haha. they also had some very interesting statues...by interesting i mean a boar tits being suckled by 2 children....whatever argentina.... there was the most adorable cupcake store that we ate red velvet cupcakes at....scrumptious!

Puerto Madero: (think soma) We walked along the docks and envied the cutest family with 3 blond little hippie boys. So....we never really figured out the acceptable eating times in B.A (Buenos Aires) they eat dinner at 10pm and lunch around 2ish....and coffee and cake around 4pm...needless to say we seemed to eat lunch at 4pm....so there were usually vacant resturants when we ate. We ate at Sushi Club...a nice change from eating meat. the next time we went here we were drenched from walking in the rain to the ferry terminal to try to buy tickets to Uruguay....needless to say we didnt get the tickets and walked home in the rain. not a good day to say the least...

Recoleta: The richy-rich area (Pac heights). We travelled to the cemetary where Evita is buried and walked among the beautiful/eerie tombs of BAs elite. On our quest to find evita we encountered 2 older men also in search of evita, they were quite the dynamic duo and very stoked when we finally found her. They had 1 digital and 2 back up disposable cameras for the occasion. they had a 10minute photo shoot with the tomb. CLASSIC. We were freezing so we popped into the design center and then found the huge metal flower sculpture that opens and closes with the sun. Katie passed up on a beautiful pair of boots...shes still bummed.

People we met: We met alot of people in Buenos Aires...some good...some bad..but always great stories. So besides Shay and Asaf. We also had some other great roommates later in the week. Our two favorites hand down were Fabi and Maycal (Micheal), designers from Sao Paulo. They were super welcoming and as Nicole would say we were vibing with them...We really want to go back to Sao Paulo to see them!! There was also a french canadian that stayed with us for a night, he was a odd duck! Then ¨the shitter¨ replaced him...ahhh William.. 32 year old profession French skiier. And yes, he was the typical true to form frenchman..arrogant and self centered..who loved nicole´s butdunkadunk especially in the dump pants! He also liked to clog up the toilet early in morning. Luckily for us we were still asleep...but the handyman had a plunger 12 ft long he was use to the french! Nicole found her edward...although several inches shorter then she hoped but he could definitely keep up with her on the dance floor. She also felt her heart twitter over one of the workers in the hostel, Augustine. Unfortunately he was a man whore and she reminded him of his ex-girlfriend which he actually called her name to Nicole´s face..which killed it! We had a couple of resurface encounters like usually: Mike, the english man from Ilha Grande we saw again for the millionth time at a dance part at the hostel. The paramedic, Simon resurface as well at another dance party. And this guy from Igauzu who we never actually met but definitely remembered us and refered to us as the ¨nerdy girls¨ from Igauzu. Though when Katie tried to call him out on the backhanded compliment, he said no take it as a compliment like ¨hot libraians¨...wtf!!! Though he is the owner of a bar in Austin if we ever want to hit that up. Nicole did threaten a london guy´s life by stating she would bomb his ass...that ended the convo. There was this super weird old asian guy staying at our hostel would just watch tv and make himself dinner.

The last day sucked...it was so rainy and we couldn´t do anything! We were suppose to leave but the ferry was full. After the day from hell...we arrived in Uruguay...fyi very cold...fill u in, in a few!

-Katie and Nicole (looks and personality)

ps - We have been gone 1 month!!! woo hoo!!
Might have malaria from Igauzu bc apparently we were suppose to take the pills...opps! We will find out in 2 weeks! hhahahha nicole is freaking out...