Erik's BA Top 50 List

I am in Costa Rica. It is hot and muggy, and I haven't stopped sweating since getting here. But I'll talk moe about that later. I wanted to write one last post about Buenos Aires, but there is just so much left to say. Instead, I made a top fifty of my two weeks spent there.

So here we go...

1. Alfajores (ultra putas)
2. Parillas (grill houses, number one stand alone reason to visit Argentina)
3. Bife de Chorizo (argentinian beef, the best)
4. Palermo Soho (so bohemian)
5. Smoky City (when the plata islands lit up in flames and left BA in a haze for 3 days straight)
6. Zapallo (mashed squash, Lenay's personal favorite)
7. Gelato (Yes, Chino, it is different from helado)
8. Dulce de leche (in gelato is best)
9. Club Atletico de River Plate (Dale River!!!)
10. Almost getting robbed in La Boca (Dale River!!!)
11. Everbody sucking down mate (I haven't used mine yet)
12. Hanging with Chino's crew
13. Padel (I guess that is how it's spelled)
14. Milanesa (country fried steak, a la napolitana)
15. Pastas (Thank you italian immigrants)
16. Cheap Stella Artois (A little too much)
17. Vino barato (referto #16)
18. Straddling heavy weaponry in the musem of arms (and getting caught by the curator)
19. Bond Street (#1 punk mall in South America)
20. Lucky 7 Tattoo Studio (Thanks Gustavo)
21. Taking the subway for the first time
22. Pissed that Lacoste tees are sixty bucks in SA
23. Confused by BA prices (cheap food, cheap drink, obscenely high clothing prices)
24. Falling asleep watching Perrera
25. Thirty four hours of bussing to see Iguazu
26. Johnathan, the resident socially maladjusted Brasilian, tidy whitey lounging salami chewer
27. San Telmo fair and tango (holy shit, he just flipped that girl!)
28. Going to colonia for the day
29. Lenay forgetting her passport for the first day to Uruguay
30. Moto, our german shepherd friend
31. Getting yelled at by the Chinese grocers
32. Super panchos (dirty water dogs in BA)
33. Choclo empanadas (yes, half of these are food memories)
34. Vos, Sho, Vos
35. Seeing the transvesty hookers in the park
36. Manu leaving us Red Bull and a city map our first night
37. Red Bull party (4 cans that night, no sleeping)
38. Sarkis and that other middle eastern restaurant
39. Going to Tigre
40. Not ever supporting a team sponsored by Wal Mart (San Lorenzo, booo!)
41. Going to bed at 4 AM and calling it an early night
42. Not understanding a thing in Chino's INTL MARKETING class
43. 2 AM fanta runs
44. Everyone under the age of 60 wearing Converse All Stars
45. Seeing the narcotic animals at the zoo
46. The cat and naked statue garden
47. Hostel Nativo
48. Ceci showing us the city the second night
49. Going to watch River win 5-0
50. Wishing we could have stayed longer