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despite our carousing last night we had to wake up early to head out to Tigre ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigre,_Buenos_Aires_Province ). Tigre is a town in the greater metro area of Buenos Aires, and its pretty cool. it is built up on the River Paraná Delta, so it is a city made up of a series of small islands, and many people use boats to get around, in the delta area of the town, even the supermarkets are waterborne, bringing the goods door to door for the residents to shop for their groceries n whatnot. we were taken on a river cruise, and there was a tourguide, however the public announcement system was crappy and i was unable to hear much of anything. here are some pictures of our route.

here is an example of the houses on the delta islands, a dead boat, and a fancy museum thing, but beyond that i know very little, due to the crappy sound system on the boat.

after the boat ride we were taken to the Puerto De Frutas, which was supposed to be this really cool shopping/market area. our fixer promised us you could find anything you wanted, i was sorely disappointed, there were probably 100 stores and stalls, however there were really only like 5 different stores; the tourist trap leather stall, the home decor store, the tourist crap vendor, the cheap toys for children seller, and the wicker basket provider. not only was this place lacking in interesting things, but we were allotted 3 hours here, which including lunch was about 2 hours too long. me and a handful of other catz ate some food, and then wandered around, managing to cover nearly the entire grounds in about 25 minutes, then we sat in the sun on the pier for an hour, and then we sat on a bench for an hour, and then we went home.

yeah, so that sucked.

last night we went to this very cool bar, which was very much more my scene than the bars/clubs we have been going to. the back area was open to the sky with fire pits, fire is always good, and inexpensive drinks. there were at peak about a dozen of us so it was a good time standing around and joking and chatting and whatnot. afterwords my roomate, myself and another dood in our neighborhood hopped a cab home. the cabby was awesome, talking to us (obviously in spanish) about all kinds of stuff, asking what we thought of the global economy, and how we liked Buenos Aires, and how corrupt it was, and politics, and obesity, it was neat.

we got home and promptly fell asleep.

tonight, we will eat at home and likely go out again to (i hope) a similar bar.