We're HERE!!

Getting adjusted to Buenos Aires. The apartment here is beautiful (pictures coming soon) as is the neighborhood where we are staying, Recoleta . Annamaria, the woman who lives here and takes care of the house is so sweet. We took a little time to get used to the whole language and finding our way around the neighborhood but now that we're settled we're starting to have fun.

This is perhaps the most common sight here, which we have been enjoying several times a day with the locals:

The café (espresso, always served with a shot of sparkling mineral water and some cakey or cookie-ish snack) is a staple of the Porteño (citizen of B. A.) lifestyle. Being coffee lovers, we have had no trouble adjusting to THIS custom.



After settling in, and a little trouble finding the entrance, we got to see the famous Cementerio de la Recoleta (Recoleta Cemetery):




It's like an small city of tombs.


Jackie got to work shooting some B+W film.



The tombs were stunning . Some were like mini elegant palaces for the dead, some were old and dilapidated. Many, such as this one, had statues of the deceased. We thought this one was particularly creepy and cool:



Notice the kitties at the feet of the statue? There were tons of them all around the cemetery, which I figured to be the perfect kitty habitat with all of its ledges and hideaways.



Soo cute!