First impressions
Flying over South America I was really struck by how wet it is. At least for the parts where it was daytime, there were rivers and lakes everywhere. And the occasional thing on fire.
The weather is quite nice here, probably about the same as Toronto around a month ago. Cool, but bright and sunny and warm at the same time. Argentina, at least from here on south, reminds me of Canada geographically quite a lot. So far Buenos Aires is a funny mix of every city I've ever been to; there's a bit of Toronto, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Montreal, and even a bit of Caribbean flavor — incredibly diverse and cosmopolitan at first glance. It's pretty run down though, you can definitely see that while a lot of wealth has flowed through this nation but that it's been hurting for some time financially.
Those are just a couple quick pictures of the (under construction) hotel courtyard. Other than that we just went out on a pharmacy run, as Rachel has some mystery disease. If it's worse tomorrow we're going to have to seek out real medical care.
Thanks to la negra and Javier for picking us up at the airport.
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