Sunset and Wine

     Watching a sunset in the capital city can be difficult, especially downtown. However, it was still breathtaking. I went with Kristen over to Deb's apartment (the woman from the states who had the asado a few weeks back) to watch the sunset, drink some wine and snack on some fruit, bread, olives etc. We ended up talking for hours, drank the whole bottle of wine, took a bunch of pictures and Deb finished it off by giving me a 'farewell' present. It was really touching, since I've only known her a short time. She got me such a beautiful bracelet of red leather and a bright metal that resembles sterling silver.

Above: Me and Kirsten Below: Me and Deb                      

Happy Birthday GABE!!!!!!!!!

Gabriel, I love you! Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!    
  I leave on Friday morning at 9:25 am. I am leaving in a couple DAYS! How crazy is that!? I fly from Cordoba to Lima, Peru to L.A. California to Denver, CO.

                                This flower was something. No clue what the name is...  But they are blooming like crazy right now.

This is the forever popular salami. I think it's rancid.. but the people here love it. You notice the large chunks of fat? Yea.. that's why I can't eat it..  plus they eat it at room temperature so there's a strange smell that perfumes the room when some one eats it. It's horrible. People usually carry it around with a knife, and cut little slices whenever they feel like eating eat.

This is Marina's family (minus her little brother). This was taken in their home the day that I left Villa Maria.

 

Political Nonsense: 

On the news the other day, there was a featured story about an infant that was abandoned by his mother in a freezing river. The infant was found in the river (water level rising quickly due to the rain) with no diaper, only a plastic bag tied around his hips. The woman who found this little guy was holding onto him while being interview by the news cameras, and she was explaining (in very little words) how she came across the baby. And Guess what? Will there be a search to find the mother who did this? No. Nothing will happen to the mother. Nothing. She won't get arrested, she won't get fined, she won't get orders to seek therapy or a doctor, no organization will knock on her door to see if she has other children living in her home... nothing. Absolutely nothing will happen to this woman who threw her baby away to die. And this my friends, is one thing about Argentina that boils my blood. You can quite literally get away with murder! What country doesn't object to a woman throwing her baby away like garbage?