I don't know why, but this post has been sitting in draft state for a really long time. I guess I feel like I'm leaving something out, but if I don't post it now, I probably never will.
This is the last post in the Argentine Adventure series, and it's about having fun instead of logistics and places to sleep. Both Buenos Aires and Rosario provided plenty of opportunities to explore and enjoy the culture we were there to experience.
Rosario
As previously mentioned, Rosario is a city which has played a major role in Argentine history. There is a huge monument down by the river commemorating the first raising of the Argentine flag. I passed by it a number of times, but C. and the kids got to give it a better look while I was at work.
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| Monumento a la Bandera, Rosario |
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| M. and F. near Monumento a la Bandera |
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| M. and F. near Monumento a la Bandera |
Rosario also has lots of parks and plazas. The largest is the
Parque de la Independencia. Though it was right across the street from where I was working, I only saw it from a distance. Again, my family explored it more thoroughly.
Much of my sight-seeing in Rosario was done while running in the mornings, or while walking to and from the office.
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| Taken while running down by the river. |
We had dinner at a restaurant by the river one night with my coworkers. We discovered that one of these old warehouses was full of ramps and so forth for BMX bicycles. We stopped and watched the guys in there jumping and doing tricks.
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| My daily walking commute took me down Boulevard Nicasio Oroño. |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a very big city with lots of cultural attractions. Just hanging out in Puerto Madero can prove to be pretty entertaining. On Sunday morning I got up to go for a run and came across an area being set up for a running event. I later discovered that one of the women at the office was there, and it was a charity run benefiting some kind of women's health cause. Later that morning, when we were heading out on the town, the
Prefectura Naval were having a ceremony right in front of the hotel which included a parade of their marching band.
Parque Mujeres Argentinas, near our hotel in Buenos Aires had the biggest aloe vera plants I've ever seen.
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| M. and some really big Aloe plants. |
On Sundays there is a huge street market in the San Telmo district. There are all kinds of vendors selling souvenirs, food, clothes, and just about everything else. We saw a few classical guitarists performing, and at one of the booths selling musical instruments, a spontaneous jam session broke out with drums, flutes, and shakers. It was awesome.
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| At the street market in San Telmo |
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| Along Av. Paseo Colón |
The day we left, I was working the first part of the day. While I was at the office, my wife and kids explored
La Recoleta Cemetery - very apropos, considering it was Halloween.
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| La Recoleta Cemetery |
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| La Recoleta Cemetery |
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), a modern art museum, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. We met up there after I got done working. My daughter was especially taken with some of the optical art pieces.
MALBA was our last stop before heading to the airport. I was excited to be going home, but at the same time, I was a little sad that we couldn't stay a bit longer and see more of that wonderful city.
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