Tango, Touring, and Trails

Happy 11th Anniversary to us! (on Friday)  We celebrated by going to a dinner and tango show.  The tango dance style originated in Argentina, so it's a cultural thing.  The food was excellent (Argentine steak, of course!), the band musicians were very talented, as well as the dancers.  Neither of us were that impressed with the singers, but it might have helped if we understood the words.  :)  We had three 15-year old girls babysit for us: one of whom we helped celebrate her 15th birthday earlier, and her two friends from Brazil.  They spoke conversational English and did a great job babysitting.  The kids had fun with them.

We forgot our camera, but got some blurry pictures with our ipod.

Yesterday we visited the downtown area called Puerto Madero, which is newer, modern, fancy, expensive, etc.  We played on some park exercise machines, toured an old ship called the Frigate Sarmiento, walked across the Puente de la Mujer (bridge of the woman, which was supposed to represent legs), and ate lunch at Mostaza (a fancy McDonalds except we had to wait forever for our food).

 We could explore almost everywhere on the ship, it was pretty cool.

 (The Puente de la Mujer is in the background, to the right)

Afterwards we went on a long hike through the Reserva Ecológica, right by downtown.  There were still lots of people around, but it was kind of nice to be away from roads and buildings and back into nature.  It was primarily a birding expedition for Bryan, Sienna, and Colby.

Here you can see the Puerto Madero skyline in the background.

A Green Barred Woodpecker

We had the missionaries over for lunch today.  One was from El Salvador and the other from Arizona.  They seemed like good missionaries and were nice to visit with.  It was an impromptu invitation at church (a lady in the ward, Relief Society president?, asked if we'd have them over today), and we had done a quick grocery run the night before "just to get us through to Monday."  So we had some homemade empanadas (now a Sunday lunch tradition, made by Bryan and Sienna), supplemented with frozen pizza, apples, and salad.  Delicioso!