these duckies were on parade at the bosques de palermo today! cuak cuak~

the sun is hot and heavy but nonetheless, it is christmas time in buenos aires too! and even though decorated trees and hanging wreaths seems a little out of place with no snow, summer christmas is lovely as can be! maybe papa noel's gonna come with shorts and a tan?

thought i'd experiment with posting some videos today...
when i travel i love to take dance classes~ dance can define a culture and argentina is definitely no exception. tango, the national dance, is sultry and passionate and proud, just like the argentinos.
the first video is from my salsa class that i've been attending for a few months, and the second is from my first tango class (many more to come!!).

the colony on the river

went to colonia, uruguay for the day and this is what i found:

la selva:





el rio de la plata:





y la costa:

pa-pa-paparazzi

it's good to be a friend of the staff at lost/shake, the boliche here in bs as where my roommate leo works as a publicist. can you say vip, every week?

the most dangerous discovery:

they've been fixing our roof basically since we moved in, and today woke mauri and me up at 5:30 AM (whaaaat?). cranky and hungry, we stumbled upon the most dangerous discovery for anyone trying to stick to a diet (which i am) (kind of). facturas are argentine pastries, baked fresh every morning at the hundreds of bakeries in the city. and they DELIVER!!! good-byyyye diet!

out of that orange-colored view

didn't edit any of these photos at all. convinced that this city is magic

splish splash!

just had to share these ridiculously adorable photos of puflo's bath in the bidet!

the best thing about the international travel community is that no goodbye is ever final, that you are bound to cross paths with dear friends somewhere down the road- the only questions are when and where!
steph and i met in seoul back in 2007, but she's been staying with us here in the loft for the past month! it has been such a joy spending time with her, a true kindred spirit and role model of mine. stephy, thank you for sharing your wisdom and buena onda with me- i can't wait to see where in the world we meet next!

is it wicked not to care?

the best nights are those spent chilling on the patio with my boys, mauri and puflo

circus freaks!

one of the things about buenos aires that has always seemed so strange for me is that so many people practice circus arts! walking through a plaza you can see people juggling (everything from bowling pins to fire), doing ribbon acrobatics, and walking on tightropes tied between trees. i know it makes me look like a total tourist, but every time i see it i immediately have my camera glued to my face like an idiot!

field trip!

lu and i work in the day and leo and mauri work at night, so we're hardly ever all in the same place at the same time. it didn't seem possible, but somehow my roommates all woke up early enough to catch the morning train to tigre, a pretty city north of buenos aires where we spent the day by the river with a picnic lunch :)

..get out of the office and into the springtime!

this time my roommate luisina joined me and mauri at the reserva ecologica for some more wandering... it's finally HOT in buenos aires and i'm loving it!! and even better now because while we were exploring today we discovered a shore! definitely planning on spending a lot of afternoons workin on my bronzzze

i get by with a little help from my friends, oh i get high with a little help from my friends

loved having a little extra life in the loft this friday~~ the party: WILD ON PUFLITO

get out of the city and into the sunshine

the loft is only about 12 blocks from the reserva ecologica costanera sur- the biggest park in buenos aires. now that spring has fully sprung, mauri and i went to explore and had a little fun in the sun (cliche overload much?? i couldn't help it)

on the walk to congreso

capital federal is full of unexpected magic, from mammoth roots to a windmill in the sky... and that's the congress building there- it looks like it was left behind by europe and forgotten for three hundred years...