Finding Evita

After a great day full of ice cream and sight seeing we decided to "do as the locals do" and eat a late dinner. I took control (for once) of the directions and got us on the subway to take us to the California Burrito Company at 10:30. At our transfer stop we sat and waited for our next train... we waited... we waited. The tv's overhead turned off... hey maybe that girl we passed who was ranting in spanish was telling us the subway was closed?! Luckily we found a gate that was only partially closed and we slipped out of the deserted subway. Not a good sign. We were told, and have read, that people in Argentina don´t eat dinner until around 9 or 10.... apparently this is only on the weekends because upon arriving at the California Burrito Company, EVERYTHING was closed. Never has a street shawarma from the only open restaurant on the block tasted so much like shame and disgrace. Most expensive shawarma as well... it cost us $2.20 on subway fare, a $10 cab ride to the shop, $15 back, plus the shawarma themselves, and of course our pride.

The next day we moved to Millhouse where we are spending the next three nights. After checking in we took a walk down to Recoleta to see the cemetery which is filled with graves of famous Argentinians, including Evita´s grave. Took us a while to find it though. By the way, we thought our spanish was improving...apparently, while we have some phrases down, our accent is pretty poor. James, in search of this famous tomb, stopped an Argentinian and asked, in spanish, "where is Evita?" The man replied in English... then again maybe it was the fact that he was wearing a Vietnam t-shirt and carrying an Indian bag that tipped him off that he was not from around here.

After the cemetary we took a walk to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Museum of Fine Arts). An amazing collection of art including Monet, Gaugain, Picasso, Degas, Manet, as well as other international artists.

A quick walk back to Lavelle street and we had our much anticipated burrito and tacos from the California Burrito Company. We will not be beat!

Heading into the Palermo district today to see some more sights (and for me to buy a pair of jeans...its cold here!).