markets and people, and being right

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managed to sleep in late (but not too late) after the fun-having of Saturday night. I made myself a peanut butter, nutella, and dulce de leche sandwich for breakfast. and then me and mike headed out to meet up with people at San Telmo Market ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Telmo,_Buenos_Aires ), we took the bus, the bus we always take, and it was great, and easy, it just took like 80 minutes. so the bus took us right to the square which has the antiques stalls, which was Plaza Dorrego ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Dorrego ), but the rest of the group we were trying to meet were literally at the other end of the Feria de San Telmo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feria_de_San_Telmo ), which is a good 1500m long. so mike and i ducked and darted through the crowds to meet up with them, and believe me, the crowds were thick with tourists and locals so it took us a little while.

we finally ran into them as they were wandering into a parking lot, which had a grill for choripan, everyone purchased choripan, and everyone exclaimed how good they were, and praised me for suggesting such a fantastical gastronomic experience. this constituted pretty much the highpoint of my day.

we then wandered around the market, i got separated from the main group with 3 girls, who were fortunately meandering through the market faster than the rest. we got to the end, and then hunted for a coffee or some such thing.

after getting kicked out of one place for not having a reservation (which is a funny story in itself; we very slowly and obviously moved over towards a table, i made eye contact with at least 2 employees gesticulating at the table as we were to sit down, and after sitting for about 3 minutes, they came and told us to leave because the table was promised to someone else) we found our way to a pleasant place that had excellent coffees, I had an irish coffee, and their version included cinnamon on top, which was interesting. the cinnamon did not improve the coffee, but it certainly didnt improve it either. the two girls we were with got a coffee drink with creme de cacao in it, which was equally delicious.

hopped the subte home, and did nothing until i fell asleep.