Hostel BBQ

Today we had a very lazy day. We decided to walk down the main street (Avenida Colon) and do some shopping. Unfortunately, Argentinians do not work very often (this is a well known fact) so all of the shops were closed from 11:00am-4:00pm and there was actually nothing to do and very few restaurants to chose from. We ended up at a Mediterranean place called "Cocina Poblana" and while Alyssa got a gyro, I decided to have a giant beer for lunch...it was a great call, lol.

We hung at the hostel during the afternoon and luckily, everyone staying at our hostel had decided to throw a BBQ during the evening. The hostel has a great open patio in the inner courtyard with a big grill, so there was plenty of room for everyone to congregate. We went to the store with the girls who we share a room with to get some chicken to grill and vegetables for a salad. They do some things very differently in Argentina- for instance, they don't sell pre-made salad dressing so we had to figure out how to make it ourselves. It actually turned out delicious since we just added ingredients based on taste instead of trying to decipher the instructions. The boys grilled all of the meat which was nice so and the rest of us just hung out, drank wine and chatted.

We ate pretty late in the evening and kept drinking wine even once we were done eating. Once we ran out of wine, we switched to beer that we could purchase at the hostel since stores don't sell alcohol after 11:00pm. Alyssa snuck up at one point to go to bed, but I was having such a great time I stayed. It was an eclectic group of people: a gay couple from Texas, a guy from Holland, a girl from San Francisco and two guys from Australia. We decided that we were all going to go out to the club (even though it was already 2:00am) because the clubs in Argentina just start getting good around that time. We had an amazing time dancing and just being ridiculous and when we decided to leave the club, I was sad because I still wanted to dance. But then I looked at by watch and realized that it was 6:30am...and we were the first people to leave the club, it was still in full swing! I was in bed by 7:30am, just as the girls we share a room with were waking up for their horseback riding lessons, lol. I had a great time but I knew the next day would be a rough one!

 

 

 

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