Feliz Pascua!

Tiffany and I were in Buenos Aires for Easter (Pascua), and started our day with breakfast at the most delicious bakery in BA. It was just a block from her church, and great for people watching--there was a line of pastry buyers stretching out the door, but we were lucky enough to get a table. Our super sweet waitress brought us the best medialunas, pastries with membrilla filling, and awesome cafe con leche. At most restaurants here, when you order cafe con leche they also bring you a tiny shot glass of carbonated water and mini pastries to go along with it. We got these cute chocolate twisty pastries as ours!



After breakfast, we headed over to the Spanish service at the Anglican church Tiffany goes to. Easter definitely felt less of a big deal in Argentina than the US, but it was cool getting to see Tiffany's church and meet her friends. The church was completed in the 1940s and was built by English people living in BA, really pretty and ornate woodwork inside.

We decided we needed a special Easter lunch, so after strolling through an old neighborhood filled with huge trees and old houses we stopped in at a Peruvian restaurant. Such a fun place, and nice change of pace from other Argentine restaurants! It was colorful, had spicy food, and most of the diners looked like they were Peruvian immigrants. You know it's authentic when the woman next to you is breast feeding in full view and no one acts like it's a big deal. Tiff had spicy milky chicken and noodle soup and chicha (a purple corn-based drink), and I had rice with seafood and veggies--so good! Sitting next to us was a really friendly family, and their little boy perked up when he realized we spoke English. "Green--verde! Yellow--amarillo! Chicken--pollo!" It made me think of how excited I was when my family's Colombian friend came to visit our tiny town of Robert Lee and I got to take him to my kindergarten class for show and tell. I was the biggest ham and ate up meeting such an "exotic" guy!





The rest of the day was spent getting ready for our overnight bus ride to Mendoza... more to come!