Jan 21
Ramiro treated me to ice cream this afternoon. The weather in Buenos Aires is unbearable. Today was 40 degrees Celsius. I wanted to gauge my eyes out!
Anyway he was kind enough to be my model as I tried different portrait settings on my camera. I wish I had as much hair as he has.
Three samples of beer to choose from! Oh My! They didn't take long to devour.
First let me state that I am not a beer connoisseur, nor do I pretend to be. However, I love beer, and when I heard about Buena Birra Social Club I knew I wanted to check it out. Owned and operated by brother and sister Maria Eugenia and Ariel, Buena Birra Social Club — a puerta cerrada, or a closed-door, reservation-only establishment – attempts to rectify the lack of fine microbeweries in Buenos Aires. Ariel concocts all the beers himself in a small room in his backyard and runs Buena Birra Social Club (do you think I’ve plugged the name enough?) from his own home — he lives upstairs. The Travel Chica does a much better job than I could at explaining the experience so I’m just going to let her get on with it and show you my pictures from the evening.
Wait! I have a startling factoid: Did you know that beer in Argentina contains only 3.5% of alcohol? Mind. Blown.
As usual the only thing I could eat was pizza! Hello belly!
Retro wall decorations -- loves it
Succulent beer
I coaxed Ramiro to come with me, and thank God I did. No one, not even Maria Eugenia and Ariel, spoke English! Ramiro is traveling to Miami and Texas in February leaving me as the primary caretaker of his apartment. I hope I don't burn it down. I hate gas ovens!
I have no idea what this board was supposed to represent. It was all a blur.
The patio
The view from the patio
Me on the patio looking like a doofus
I'm having a vision of Jesus dying for our sins
Tierra Santa didn’t interest me very much until yesterday when I stumbled upon a blog post written by the Time Travel Turtle. He wrote a thorough piece about his experience at this amusement park, more than I could possibly muster out right now. I highly recommend you check it out. For only 40 pesos you too can have your mind blown. I no longer have any doubts that Argentina was and still is a devout Catholic country. And to think that just this morning I was commenting on how boring Porteños were. Crazy talk.
Mary and her dead son
Jesus' tomb
2,000 years ago cities looked like this
Put your head in this!
Jesus has one huge hand!
The Faux Western Wall.
Jesus was such a giving man
I'm king!
Is this a woman?
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