The City of Buenos Aires (and its "good airs")

Finally, a few minutes to relax! While we wait for our churros to arrive (yes, BA has churro delivery service) I'm gonna whip up a little story about our last week in Buenos Aires.
First, THANK YOU CAIT, KEVIN AND KENNETH!
For those that dont know these three, they are our friends from CA living in BA, and they let us stay at their place, and they are rad :)
Our first night we spent in a little community called San Telmo, which is one of the oldest communities, and since it was our one year anniversary (wierd huh) we went out to a fancy argentinean steak house! it was incredible cow, and yummy wine, and it was a nice relaxing night... oh ya! and i was also finally feeling healthy again after a terrible bout with strep throat or something (we found out argentinean health care and hospitals are free for everyone).
the next day we headed over to Caits in a newer, more metro big apartment part of town.
they took us out to an awesome little party at kevins "office". it was called fake champagne, enough said.
lots of parks, gardens, and subway rides later
(we always end up in parks) and we finally got ourselves a real city tour with about 500 bike riding friends... thats right, CRITICAL MASS! we took the city over with Cait... it really was the best way to see the city.
May 16th came with Jacquis birthday, and being the nerds we are we celebrated by visiting the dinosaurs in the natural history museum! not to mention sushi (salmon is the only fish they had) and drinks at a swaggy mexi bar. now gingers 23!
art, shopping, exhaust, and 10 million people later... and im spent. the whole city thing is not exactly my cup of tea, so a few tango lessons, a bomba del tiempo percussion show, and some more churros, and were off to Uruguay to take it easy for a while.

heres a few photos...

Bariloche a Puerto Pyramides

East bound- for an unbelievably cheap price, we were on a train headed across the country to the coast. 19 hours of screaming babies, smelly feet air, too much cheap wine, and little sleep, later we arrived in viedma. A city with the beautiful rio negro flowing through it (which we ate the most delicious melon by), but unfortunately has pretty much no restaurants, strangely enough. We spent hours walking around looking for a place to eat. One questionable all you can eat chinese place, one fast food mccdonaldds like restaurant, and a cafe with sandwiches...we opted for the sammys...we spent the night in the bus station, and sped out of that anorexic city at four in the mornin, headed for peurto madryn. We got settled and finally got some sleep, acnd made arrangements to fulfill our reason for going to thecoast: orcas!
We left in the excursion bus for peninsula valdes the next morning. Sightings of beautiful guanaco, choique(ostrich like birds) ,armadillos, dog sized rabbits, southern fur and elephant seals, penguins, southern right whales,and...no orcas. We felt like we couldn't really complain, but we hadn't given up hope. We had the tour leave us on the peninsula in the small settlement out here, puerto pyramides. The next day we went back to punta norte, the beach filled with seal mamas and their babies..orca hunting grounds. We sat staring at the sea expectantly. Within ten minutes I looked down the coast and saw something abnormal amid the stormy choppy sea. A fin! It was moving along the coast toward us...three adolescent orcas! The ranger was in disbelief because its very late in the orchard season and they are hard to see in may. Unfortunately the orcas weren't hungry, no baby seals taken as a snack that day, but we were ecstatic. We have spent the last couple of days hiking around, jumping off sand dunes, looking for fossils and shark teeth, whale watching, enjoying the benefits of off season (free camping, no crowds..pretty much no one actually)...it has been beautiful.
After this slow whale pace of life, its off to the big city, the rat race, ha
buenos aires!