Ronnie, Stephen, Scott and I started the day out with a bus tour of Buenos Aires. We drove around town while a girl told us a few facts about the city and occasionally we stopped to look around. The only problem was we didn't stop in any of the interesting historical parts, we stopped at various shopping centers and tourist traps. I did learn a lot about Buenos Aires on the tour, but I would have liked the opportunity to video more historic and famous places in the city. On a positive note, I continued my streak of catching a pigeon by hand in every country I visit. Not sure why I feel the need, but I did. There's a clip of it in the video at the end of today's blog.
After the bus tour, we grabbed lunch at a little bistro and I learned that a Chicken Cesar Salad in Buenos Aires consists of cicken, romaine lettuce, and chunks of bread. No Caesar dressing! It was interesting, to say the least. After lunch, I convinced Ronnie and Scott to catch a bus to the Zoo in Lujan with me. I wrote about it in an earlier post, it's the zoo whwere you can enter the cages w/ the Lions, Tigers, Bears and Monkeys and pet them and such. The 1-hour bus ride to Lujan was definitely an adventure. First of all, once all the seats were full, people packed in the aisle like sardines. There wasn't any room to spare on that bus, or so I thought. Once we got started we soon learned it wasn't a non-stop bus to Lujan, but rather, it made multiple stops along the way. Each stop, MORE people got on the bus! I honestly don't understand how they all fit!! Well, now we're on a packed, hot, bus that really didn't smell all that well when we realize, even though the sign said the trip takes an hour, there is no way we'll be there in an hour. It ended up taking 2 hours. Then came the bad news. Zoo Lujan closed early today!!! I felt horrible for dragging Scott and Ronnie along for nothing but they were good sports about it. We returned to the bus station in Lujan and ate some ice cream and drank some cokes while we waited for the next bus back to Buenos Aires.
While waiting at the bus stop, one of the many stray dogs came up to our table, so I reached out and pet it. Apparently these dogs don't get much affection because 3 more showed up as soon as they saw me petting the first. One of the dogs didn't come to me for affection, but rather, for a pillow. He walked up to me and promptly laid down and rested his head on my foot. Here's a photo I snapped of him relaxing on my shoe.
Yes, I am the Dog Whisperer. Cesar Millan has nothing on me!
The bus ride back to Buenos Aires was uneventful and, thankfully, much less crowded. We discovered when had a problem when we got back to the city though. None of us had the address of our hotel to tell the cab driver. What to do? OH, that's right, I'm a genius. I pulled out the camera and showed him video of the Plaza I had shot earlier in the day and he immediately knew where we needed to go. Now the title of my blog comes in. I've got to give Scott Kilmer credit, his Spanish has gone from none at the beginning of the trip, to much better now. However, in his attempts to talk to the cab driver, he didn't know that the cabbie asked him if he liked men. Scott enthusiastically responded "Si, Si!" We all had a good laugh for a few minutes before telling Kilmer what he said!
We got out of the cab and walked through an open market on the way back to the hotel where I finally got to shoot some Tango dancers. As far as our tour this morning was concerned, the only things going for Buenos Aires are banks, shopping, a floating casino and the Tango, but I had yet to see anyone doing the Tango. Several street performers were dancing and I got quite a bit of footage that.
Tomorrow morning we leave for Iguazu and I'm excited. If you've never heard of Iguazu falls, fire up Google image search and type it in. It's beautiful.
Until tomorrow....
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