Our Final Week in BS.AS

Well we only have one full day here before we head back to Montevideo on Thursday morning. We met up with some of our friends from Valpo and explored the city a bit more. Unfortunately, this past weekend most places were closed due to El Gripe. Even my favorite Chinese restaurant has been closed for over 4 days. We didn't realize that El Gripe was a big deal until we googled it. Argentina is the second highest country, behind Mexico, in the number of cases and the number of deaths! So people are getting pretty paranoid about it. We've been doing our part to help create a super virus by using lots of hand sanitizers.
Anyway, when we did have a chance to visit the Jardin Botanico in Palermo last week. It was pretty nice, though since it is winter there weren't any flowers in bloom. There were however a ton of cats that lived in the garden. Most of them were really friendly and ran over to be petted. We even found an Artemis look a like sunbathing in the grass!Here are some pics from the garden:
From the garden we walked to Recoleta where we stopped to see the flower statue. I thought it was going to be a glass statue, but it's actually metal. It opens and closes every day.
We also stopped into the MALBA museum; the art museum of Buenos Aires. It wasn't as large as I thought it would be, but it was very nice inside. They had a lot more modern art than I thought they would. I'm not a fan of modern art but since it was a Wednesday the entrance was only $5 pesos so I didn't feel like I wasted my money.
Since we've been here we have been trying to find some good, cheap places to eat. We have also been trying to find some decent beer. We found a delicious brewery in Recoleta called Bullers. They are pricey but if you go during happy hour their pints are half off. I had a sampler and found most of their beers to be quite good, especially their honey beer.

We also found some good food stands in Puerto Madero that serve delicious chorasquitos and bondiolas. They're sandwiches with either churasco or pork and man are they delicious! One of the places has a huge table full of condiments and the other puts tomato, lettuce, egg, and grilled onion and pepper on the sandwich. The sandwiches are only $8 pesos! Just a little more than $2usd and they fill you up for the whole day!

The first pic is of Que Parrillon, which has the long table full of fresh condiments. The second is of me with a bondiola completo from our second favorite stand.

We are going to a jazz club called Thelonious tonight. I'm really excited to watch some live jazz. The band playing tonight seems pretty cool. Tomorrow we're meeting with our friend for the last time before we leave BS.AS for good. It's crazy to think that we'll be back in Seattle in one week!