Day 7 - Zoo and Steak

Today started off back at Jardin Maternal San Benito. We began the morning by sanding down a long fence of black metal bars which needed to be repainted. Some of us stayed inside with the children while the rest of got down n’ dirty. A couple hours into the day the buses started arriving for which to transport us and about 100 local children to the Buenos Aires Zoo. You might be thinking “Oh boy, 100 children who speak little English, what are we gonna do?” You are obviously not us, “De nada.” We split into four groups and rode the buses with los niños to the zoo in BA. It was a long ride but we had fun sitting with the children and teaching other our respective languages. Peter made a big blunder while asking the children how old they were but that’s a story for another time. The zoo was crazy fun.

After splitting with los niños we found ourselves at the Unicenter (pronounced ‘ooni-center’), basically an Argentine shopping mall. Tony made the observation that this mall had more stores geared towards men than most American malls. It could be said that the ratios of male-to-female were reversed. In any case, the mall was just a way of getting us hungry enough for the real deal, La Caballeriza.

La Caballeriza is a steakhouse located across the street from the horse tracks. The story is that the whole street the steakhouse is on was once a row of horse stables. A man came by and decided to convert one into a restaurant. Everyone laughed at him but his restaurant flourished. Soon after, all the stables were converted into eateries and shops. The steaks were unreal. We ordered in quantities of 300 and 500 grams (do the conversions yourselves you lazy Americanos). It was a great way to end the night. Good food and good friends. That could be one of the themes of this trip. See pictures below and comment. Don’t read this post without commenting. Please.

Mikey y amigos

This was kind of a random shot of Karen but if you look really closely you can also see Les in the background.

Andy and Jake directing traffic

Coolest primate ever. He was almost too human. At one point he was laying back with his hands behind his head and he started picking his teeth and then he looked at his fingers and flicked some grass or something off them and it was really human like.. I know that was a run-on sentence, big deal ya wanna fight about it?

We were petting goats

Long night.

There is also a big group shot I wanna post, I think Karen has the picture.

Caleb was quite popular with las ninas.

A great pic of the Fritz'