Buenos Aires II, Night 2

Hola.

Things are moving down here in Argentina, and it's great!

Last night after work I headed back to the hotel to meet up with the rest of the Bristol group that came down. After dropping my bag off in the room we headed out to dinner.

We went to a place called Happenings (I know - sounds like a singles bar, right?). I didn't see it in Frommer's, but it was pretty good. We ordered the traditional bar-be-que again with all the different samples. One sausage this time, which was tasty, and another helping of Blood Sausage. I liked it at the other place better. This one had a different, softer consistency - kind of mealy. But it was fun watching the rookies' reactions. I had a helping of Bife de Lomo, because I love it! It did not disappoint. I tried a different type of potato - I think it was like a Spanish potato that was sliced thing (like chips) and then covered with herbs and butter, then baked. VERY tasty. Much lighter than papas fritas. The wine was Luigi Bosca reserva, Malbec 2005. Very tasty as well.

Afterwards I tried espresso for the first time down here. It was good, but not the best thing to be drinking at 11:15 at night. That was a dumb idea. The rest of the Bristol crew looked like they could have fallen asleep at any moment, so we didn't linger too long. Our host brought us back to the hotel and everyone basically went to sleep.

I tried to go to sleep, but stupid me just HAD to try the espresso. At 11:15 at night. Dumb. I watched something on the Discovery Channel about a couple of Americans going to Africa and participating in fights with other tribes (like wrestling matching). I'm not sure exactly what they were doing - I started halfway through. The one benefit of the late night espresso was some very fun dreams. But, there's nothing more boring than listening to someone else's dreams, so I'll keep that to myself.

I'll write more later.