Buenos Aires, day 3!

On Sunday we went to the San Telmo Flea Market, which is especially famous for the antiques that they sell there and the street performers that gather. I mostly took pictures of the street performers instead of the market itself.

There was some really fun tango dancing at the market, this is a snap shot from a video I took.

I especially liked listening to the tango bands that were out there. Here is one of them. The play very traditional tango music, but I think its the right size ensemble that sounds really good. There was also a cellist, but for some reason he was sitting sort of away from everyone else, so I could't get him in the photo.

And then there was also -- Ed tried to describe what he had read about - that one of the street performers at the market is a guy who pretends like he's in a hurricane. Let yourself imagine what that might be like for a moment....

And this is what we ran into:

the change poses whenever you give them any money. And sometimes just on a whim to get more laughs.

After walking around the square we went to a nearby cafe for a late lunch. Julia ordered Mate, a special kind of tea that Argentinians like to drink in the afternoon. You put the Mate (the green leaves in the cup to the right) into the silver cup with the silver straw and soak it with some hot water. Then add some sugar and drink it through the special straw which has a filter at the bottom so you don't drink any of the leaves. When we were at the cafe, people kept leaning over to our table to teach Julia how to drink and prepare the Mate. :D

For dinner we went to el Mirasol, a really good restaurant (steak again!). The food all got devoured before I had a chance to take a picture. But this is all of us at the restuarant by the time the desert came out.

After dinner we went to las Canitas (the new place to go in Buenos Aires, though it was not too bustling on Sunday night). First, we walked around and found a little park in the middle of the street and indulged our inner child. Teresa especially enjoyed riding on this swinging oil drum :P She got Annie to get on with her - looks like fun, right?

After that we went to a bar where we ordered a bottle of wine and also a pitcher with fruit and sugar - sort of a makeshift sangria. Can you see the fruit in the wine? It was delicious :D, but we had a little bit of trouble getting to all the fruit, hehe: