Buenos Aires (round 2)

Okay, so I arrived in Buenos Aires on Tuesday morning (at the Marriott--whoohoo! my own room with my own huge wonderful bed and own shower!) only to find out that my mother´s plane was delayed by a day and she wouldn´t be coming till Weds. I basically spent the day running errands (laundry, laying out, reading) and running around to different embassies (only to find out that I can´t go to Brazil because I don´t have enough blank pages in my passport)- awesome. It was nice to run in a gym though!
Wednesday my mother arrived and we went to Recoletta Cemetary (saw Eva Peron´s grave) and met up with Ernesto and his family (an exchange student my grandparents had in the 70s in NJ) who took us around town and to a fabulous seafood restaurant. The next couple days we spent seeing all the sites: Plaza de Mayo, Japonese Gardens, Av. 9 de Julio, Evita museum, Teatro Colon, Puerto Madero, as well as a trip up to Tigre and San Isidro to see the Rio de la Plata delta which is the widest in the world (you can´t even see Uruguay on the other side). We also went to a tango show one night which had spectacular food and a wonderful show (G&G would have loved it!). We tried to go to a futbol game, but there was only one (Boca Juniors) and they weren´t selling tickets to tourists because they were expecting it to be too dangerous). Saturday afternoon Ernesto had us out to his house for a huge Asado with his family and endless steak and wine!
Overall, Buenos Aires was nice, but I will say it wasn´t all it was cracked up to be. It had some good sites, but pretty much is just a city. It was very busy and crowded. I´m glad I went certainly, though, and under different circumstances (we had A LOT go wrong), I can see how it can be a very different city in someone else´s eyes. But it was fun to wake up and decide we had had enough and then just hop a boat over to Uruguay!