7 by 70

so the recounting of end of the first day here…

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our first afternoon outing…

So across the street from the hotel is a very upscale mall Patio Bullrich. Many American stores but there was a different more relaxed feel; it lacked the jangly almost aggressive manic bustle that even upscale malls I’ve experienced in America can have, especially this time of year. What struck me as a bit odd was the choice of music which while we were wandering through was jazzy renditions of Christmas carols in English and Cole Porter. And it didn’t seem to be a mall catering to Americans as much as this seems to be high-end hotel row. All signage was in Spanish without prices in American dollars and even at the Nike store there was no one who spoke English when I tried to figure out if a pair of those split—toe shoes of theirs that I like would be a bargain down here (it wasn’t.) So maybe they just like our carols and it doesn’t drive them crazy because they don’t understand the words!
I came across this store and was sure I wasn’t in the states, cause I just don’t see anyone getting away with the name.

Lunch in a little cafe worked to get us out of the rain and then a walk back under building arcades kept us dry.
Cutting back through the mall had to grab a picture of the movie theater, look at all that candy!

They are playing 500 Days of Summer, I might just have to go to the late movie one night. And 2012, I wonder what they think of it down here?

It looks like it is clearing, it’s 10 after 7 and Mom just pointed out that it is still light out, which is a bit disorientating. I am sure I will get over it to walk through a pretty sunset to a good steak dinner!

where is my spanish phrase book?

A bit rested and (for me at least) in massive need of caffeine we set out to reconnoiter the neighborhood around the hotel Recoleta

It’s a gray day but the rain has stopped, hopefully it is done for the day. On the way in from the airport, it was warm but damp feeling not muggy. Not too bad to walk around in.

Buenos días

Real quick, we got in on time which made it just before 6 eastern time. So it ended up being just over 18 hours from arriving at LGA to leaving the airport here. But we are HERE!

Got to the hotel (more on that in next post) The Caesar Park Buenos Aires very elegent, the room is lovely overlooking a garden.

Had coffee (more on the coffee later) and an overflowing bread and pastry basket in the hotel restaurant, came back upstairs and did the all important, never straight-foward getting the laptop on the wifi, and now am off to a much needed nap.

Mom is there already.

we are off….

In Miami, halfway through a three hour layover for our nightflight to Buenos Aires.

Had to walk from one end of this muggy airport to the other and there were no slidewalks until the very last bit.

Dinner was tasty salads and actually an OK screwtop bottle of White Zin.

The flight here was bumpy but worth it for the AMAZING sunset. We dropped through cloud mountains to fly below them and above wispy cotton candy.  Think of any cliche, cartoon clouds and that’s what we were flying through, and the sky was an stunning layered sherbet array, pink to green to blue. It was an entire landscape. Quite lovely. I was in the window seat, a nice perservering young lady was in the middle and Mom was on the aisle reading her book.

And now we sit here, I’m getting a refill at a  Samsung charging tree, two very Miami hip young men were nice and vacated their seats for us . And then it’s on the plane and off to BA, which is EAST of us, and so we will land at 8 there time, 6 am eastern. BA is east of us, you would think it wouldn’t take the map in the back of the airplane magazine for me to realize that.

Here’s GAYLA:

Had set the clock for 7:30, but got a phone call from a friend at 6:45, so up and had a quiet morning finishing putting things in the suitcase.  Met the Daughter at the airport at Noon and here we are waiting for the long flight.  I think both Lis and I are a little dopey from lack of sleep, all she can talk about is “slidewalks” and “charging trees”.  I will come home with a whole new vocabulary and be very hip.  We both need to sleep on the plane.

MOM’s first blog entry… YEA!

today we depart….

After the last few days of pulling together the last few pieces for Mom and getting most everything together for me, now at 8:45, we are both packed and ready to go.