Buenos Aires, day 4

Monday: First, we went to La Boca to see a neighborhood of colorful houses called Caminito. It's a pretty big tourist attraction, so there are a bunch of vendors down (here there were a lot of paintings).

The houses are colorful because when there was a large immigration boom in Buenos Aires in the late 1800's a lot of Italians moved to this area, especially those from Genoa. They came from a city by a port, just as la Boca is along the coast of the Rio de la Plata as well. So they continued one of their traditions which was painting their houses with the left over paint from the shipyard. That's what makes the neighborhood so colorful. This town took it even further and they even started building entire homes out of materials from the shipyard!

Empenadas for lunch! Here is a true picture of what mine looked like :D Yumm! And the Pepsi from the glass bottle.

Ed & Julia

the t(h)eresas
Then we took a walk in the park, just playing around, posing with the statues~


And went to the Japanese garden (largest one outside of Japan!)

Then we headed down to the Rio de la Plata (finally!). You can see the city of Buenos Aires in the distance (right above my head). As a mentioned before it is the widest river or estuary (right where the river is about to meet the ocean) in the world - at least the part where the river meets Buenos Aires. Here's an image of it from wiki:

So even on a clear day you can't see uruguay, I think where Buenos Aires is, it's on the order of the width of lake erie (~ 40 miles wide)!

Then went for a little bit of shopping and dinner at Bar Milion (a resturant bar that was converted from a 3 story mansion). On our way to dinner we passed by the Obelisk, and took a moment to take some photos. What Ed will do for a good photo opportunity: (he had to lay/crouch on the ground in order to get the whole obelisk~)