Project 365, Day 14

Day: Got up early and went to El Tigre. It's about 30 minutes outside the city and has a slower pace of life on the river. We had planned on going there by train, then taking an hour boat ride to a private beach on the river, but of all the boats available and the thousands of beaches, only one boat was operating and going to one public beach. 

So, we decided once we got to El Tigre to walk through El Puerto de Frutos, a street market held every weekend. We sat down at an outdoor restaurant and they drank fresh fruit juices and ate choripan. Afterward, we found a beautiful grassy spot and set up camp where we stayed for four hours, and enjoyed 70 cent dulce de leche/vanilla swirl cones from the McDonald's a couple feet away from us (you can kind of see the yellow 'M' in the top right of the last picture below).

Picture: ... it was wonderful.

xo amanda

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1. love my boots my parents gave me

2. freeway in buenos aires

3. when i tried out this hairstyle by Taza and still had my nose piercing

4. a delicious cone shaped chocolate covered alfajor with tons of dulce de leche

5. you guys, macarons in a McDonald's. (!!!)

6. this place is legit

7. we went to an old opera house, el Teatro Colon. I was in love with the dreamy ceiling

8. all the gold plating is actual gold; that place was gorgeous

9. arrived safely to the countryside after 3 hours of stumbling from one form of public transportation to another. also: finally learning how to style my short hair

10. friends are starting to ride

11. La Martina was the name of the ranch

12. the place was so beautiful

13. so many dogs there! there were lots of border collies too- made me miss mine

14. there were old beautiful houses all over the family-owned property

15. time passed so quickly in this haven from the city

16. chilled with dogs for the better part of the afternoon

17. this was my favorite house! i kept feeling like cinderella was going to walk out at any given moment

18. flowers everywhere

19. i kept asking myself if this was real life

20. hanging out by the pool

21. some of the landscape reminded me exactly of virginia

22. also we climbed trees

23. taking a break from galloping

24. having a tea of cold coke and scones after riding

25. hanging out by the highway waiting for the bus

Project 365, Day 2

Day: After school, us study abroad kids went to el Teatro Colón, a famous old opera house (that's still being used!) It was so beautiful and I was reminded of my grandmother, who would have loved the gold plated rooms and classic decor of the building.

Picture: We were late for the first tour, so we had an hour to kill and decided to head to the Obelisk, which was only a couple blocks from the theatre. It was cool, but even cooler was the surroundings- this place basically looked like Times Square, with the huge billboards (both electronic and not), colors, and just in general craziness. Pretty awesome.

Oh! and see that McDonald's? Some of us went there to get smoothies, and this place was like a freaking patisserie. It had tons of pastries including croissants, eclairs, and macarons. MACARONS.  Oh Buenos Aires I love you.