According to the original plan, I am supposed to be in Uruguay right now. With time and money running short and a few friends getting in their last minute visits before I depart, I find myself still in Buenos Aires. It's not so bad, though, it's party season! We Americans have the multi-festival of Christmakwanzaakah to celebrate. Argentines have a multi-celebration of their own, the birth of Jesus and the beginning of Summer. As such, it's not strange to see Christmas trees spiked into the sand or to buy your gifts at an outdoor holiday market filled to the brim with sweaty, tanned shoppers. Strange. It won't be Christmas for me until I feel the cold wind and have a hot beverage. Mate doesn't count;)
Yesterday a local friend took me to a combo Navedad/Bienvenido Verano party in Tigre, a lazy town about 45 minutes North of Buenos Aires on the Argentine delta. Tigre is rustic and understated with small, modest homes graciously spaced out along a murky river. It was a lovely afternoon of authentic Argentine merry-making. Lawn lounging, boat rides, line-dancing to cumbia beats, a little croquet, an asado at sunset. Here are a few pictures from the day.
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