Today has been an interesting day, to say the least. Ronnie, Scott, Stephen and I left Montevideo, Uruguay this morning and caught a flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina. We have 2 days before the students catch up to us so today is a day of rest and tomorrow we're going to film and photograph the sites.
We landed in a rainy, Buenos Aires around 10:30am and caught a taxi to the hotel. After checking in we walked down to an italian restaurant that Stephen knew of that overlooked the shipyard. The food was simply amazing. I had a lasagna bolognese and it was probably the best meal I've had on this trip so far. After lunch we walked back to the hotel to pass out and get some rest. We're all coming down with a cold, most likely from exhaustion as the average time we were getting back to our Hotel in Montevideo after filming students was after 2am. While getting ready to sleep I learned of a slight problem at the hotel. While it has free wireless, it seems the entire hotel is sharing the 1 DSL line coming into the building. SLOWWWWWWWW and sketchy. I get bounced out of the connection about every 5 minutes or so. But it's free, can't complain too much!
Around 6 we headed out again for dinner and to tour the markets a bit. I bought a few souvenirs and we all had a good time experiencing the cultural differences between here and Montevideo (I prefer Montevideo). After walking around we caught a cab to a steakhouse where I discovered I no longer had my iPhone. Scott happened to remember the name of our cab driver so the next cab I saw I ran out, showed him the name and asked if he could call him. The only problem was, they don't really teach you "I left my iPhone in a cab, can you hop on the radio and ask him?" in Spanish class or at the car dealership where I learned most of my Spanish. So after a few minutes of my broken Spanish and his inability understand any english, I remembered hearing English from the table behind us. I ran back and a group of recent college grads from the states were there and one of them was fluent in Spanish. He asked the driver again and the driver said "you can call the company, but good luck getting the phone back."
When we got back to the hotel I asked the guy at the front desk if he could help me call the cab company and give them the driver's name and see about my phone and he very politely said, "there's thousands of cabs in this city, and hundreds of companies. Without knowing the drivers' company, you wont' find your phone." :/
On a brighter note, after our city tour and filming tomorrow, I've convinced the guys to go with me to Zoo Lujan. It's just outside of BA and it's sketchy enough that they let you go in the cages and pet the lions, tigers, bears, elephants, etc and encourage you to do so and take photos and video. So this may be my last post ever, lol, but I'm excited to go.
Until tomorrow.
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