Photos edited by Julio Corazza

5/31

First, I apologize for typos in yesterday's post.  It will happen again.  My eyes are a bit tired and sore and fingers not working well.

A beautiful, sunny morning in BA.  We're up a bit late because of returning at 4 a.m.  Had a lovely evening.  Fist, an amazing steak dinner at Chiquilin with our friend Julio.  Great food, good malbec, but mainly good conversation.  It's wonderful to have friendships that transcend time and distance.  After dinner, we went on to El Beso for the Saturday night milonga.  Made myself sit with las mujeres so that I showed I was willing to dance with men in addition to Chuck.   Had some lovely dances, and people were very nice.

Today we plan to do some hanging out in the city then go to La Glorieta, the year-round outdoor milonga in the park.  Have posted some photos below.  First, our lovely little kitchen, then photos from the restaurant and the street, and finally one from the supermercado:  an entire aisle of dulce de leche!

Don't know how to turn photos on blogger!!

Arrived Thursday in Buenos Aires, tired from flying all night and the hassles of airports, late flights, and gate changes.  Met at the airport by a car hired by the apartment and arrived at the lovely apartment in Palermo by noon.  After our orientation to the amazing building where we are staying--on the 15th floor with a beautiful view of the city fro our balcony--we went out for coffee and a search for some basic supplies.  Returned, showered, and off to our first milonga:  Nuevo Chiche,' and afternoon milonga.  In order to get dances with the local, we sat separately.  People were very nice, and we both danced most of the evening.  Too tired to go on to a late night milonga, we came home, crashed and slept 10 hours.  Yesterday, explored the area a bit more than went off to another afternoon milonga, El Abrazo, where we danced for 5 hours and ran into a friend we met 5 years ago.  From El Abrazo, we got on the Subte (BA's subway system) and traveled on to a night milonga in a beautiful venue.  Because we were feeling the effects of the last 5 hours, we sat together had empanadas, watched, chatted a bit with our friend, and danced a little.  Only made it till about 1 because we hadn't really caught up on sleep so grabbed a taxi and came home.  Today, we've relaxed a bit after a walk to the supermercado for groceries that should last us a while.  This evening our friend Julio is meeting us for dinner then off to El Beso for Las Morachos milonga.  No expectations! If we just watch and dance with each other a bit that will be sufficient.  I love watching and trying to identify elements of my dance I need to improve.