Los Dominicos

 On our final day we took the subway to the furthest stop to Los Dominicos.  It's the cutest market!  On the weekends there's also a farmer's market.  It's a shopper's paradise.  I was in search of a Chilean nativity and gifts for me kiddos.  I found everything and then some.  Chile is known for its copper, so I got a copper nativity.  My mom got me the coolest one ever.  A man makes nativities on the end of match sticks.  It's amazing!

Meanwhile, Little Man was busy taking videos of all the cats he came across.  There are so many in Chile! I've decided he should be called the Kitty Whisperer.

Meanwhile, I had the best meal of the trip at Los Dominicos.  Chile has a beautiful drink - Lemonade with mint and ginger. Yum! I had Consuela which is a form of a stew, and it was delicious!

Other fun food experiences while we were here: We had a Childean brunch the first morning we arrived.  We got to try a bunch of typical Chilean foods right away. I took a picture of the explanation not realizing I cut off the end, but the drink has a dehydrated apricot in it with barley.  It's a bit much of me, but it's supposed to be the national drink called Huesilla.

The money is very pretty.

We also tried Chile's version of sushi.  It's actually imitation crab or fried chicken wrapped in avocado or a sweet mayo.  It's quite tasty.

When we went to the Plaza de Armas we had Empanadas and Completos (hot dogs with toppings).

Would you like some hot dog with that mayo??  I had to wipe a bunch of it off, but the bun is toasted to perfection, and it was very good.

We had baked and fried empanadas.

At the top of St. Lucia we had yummy gelato.  I had pineapple mango with yummy chunks in it, and Little Man had Nutella gelato.  

All of these flavors of Alfajores from Los Dominicos were delicious.

We also ate Peruvian food one of the nights. So good! (more mint and ginger lemonade)

We had so many fun experiences!

El Tigre

 Before flying back at night, we went an hour Northeast of Buenos Aires to Tigre.  We went to the river market in search of alfajores, and then went on a boat ride through the "town."  

 

 

All of the homes are directly on the water without streets or cars.  They have electricity and internet, but have to bring in bottled water to drink and cook.  They have a filter system directly for the river to shower.  The supermarket is a boat.  The ambulance and police are all on boats.  

We finally found alfajores at the very end and also membrillo cookies (quince cookies).  The tour ended with a lovely Argentine lunch.

And just like that we were headed back to Chile!

A Day in the Life of a Gaucho

 We traveled an 75 minutes North of Buenos Aires to spend the day learning about Argentine Gauchos (Cowboys). Little Man wasted no time making friends with the cats and even the horses.  

We tried typical meats of Argentina for lunch.  We tried blood sausage for the first time and universally agreed it was a one and done.  Not my fave!  The entertainment was fabulous!  The singer had the most gorgeous voice!  I was dying how clear of a tone he has, and the dancers were wonderful.  They danced the typical dance of each region of Argentina.  We loved it! We basically had front row seats, but that also means we had to get up and dance and mom got sung to as well.

We also got to see a Guacho show which was very impressive.  It was a bit nippy outside but still a lot of fun.

There was crazy traffic on the way back into Buenos Aires, so it took over 2 hours to get to the hotel.  We were so full though that we didn't want dinner anyway.  The sunset was lovely.