Mar del Plata

Before I start this entry I want to commend Ma and Pa for some serious serious computer help that is only possible in this era de la informática. We made a three-way call and were able to repair my ailing computer. It is now good-as-new (*knock on wood - as good-as-new as a compy with Windows Vista can be)!!! Thank you thank you thank you!

MAR DEL PLATA
I embarked for Mar del Plata to visit Sanchez and el Colo (Matt and Jake). They had already achieved celebrity status there after only a few months and it was cool to travel in their entourage. Their coolness gave me coolness my proxy. Anyway, I saw sea lions and went out to the ocean and ate a gigantic burger and loved it. I only spent a day there but I was able to get the full MDP experience. Artesan alfajores, playing pool (Jake kept explaining the international rules of pool, which apparently are completely different from the way I learned it, and kept saying ¨no, no, let´s play it your way¨... about the only thing they have in common is that you´re trying to get the ball in the pocket), having fun with our nationalities (Jake is Australian and it´s fun to have old people come over and say, ¨Aw yeah! Crocodile Dundee!¨ to us,... for Matt and I they didn´t know where the hell we would be from, with our apparent ¨caras de platenses¨).

It was like one of those times (have you had these, reader?) when you walk into a party and don´t know anyone and leave having met everybody. Like Wedding Crashers.

Pictures to follow.

I returned to La Plata and put together a heaping helping of salad (what? salad in Argentina?) with Agus. The next day I left for Mendoza!