Estamos aqui

We have arrived in Buenos Aires.

After a long, cold flight (the most frigid flight I've ever been on - they had to chip out the penguin to make room for us) we arrived this morning.

We found our apartment in Las Canitas and met with the person to get keys. Walked around a little, bought some food, made lunch, and napped. The neighborhood is nice, plenty of dogs, nice shady streets, we can see the polo grounds from our window. The apartment is clean, very sunny and bright, sparsely furnished but acceptable. The funny little things about life in a foreign country interest us: the tiny elevators, the keys (like something from the 14th century), the food packaging that is of course foreign to us. Maybe it's the jet lag, but in the market we were like dogs staring something they don't understand with heads slightly cocked. Is this tomato sauce or a juice container? Is this fat free or lactose-free or not-milk-at-all? Anyway, we figured it out (I mean, like, we're pretty well educated, so we should be able to figure out something as uncomplicated as yogurt). We settled out on vermicelli and salad. Can't go wrong.

We'll be snoozing most of the rest of the day and trying to set up Vonage.












View of the river delta approaching Buenos Aires











Gen pensively looking out the window.