Mom and Dad in Argentina

Well, my parents arrived in Buenos Aires on the 15th of July, ending our 6 month time period without seeing each other.  We've eaten so much delicious food, seen much of BA, and made our way north to Iguazu Falls, and then Northwest to Salta.  It's been an amazing trip!  We took so many pictures over the past couple of weeks but here are some highlights...

They've changed quite a bit since I last saw them!

La Boca

Dad started dancing Tango

Goat cheese salad at the Evita Museum

Lounging at their place

At a Tango show in San Telmo

Iguazu Falls!

Heading to the Devil's Throat

Garganta del Diablo!  The Devil's Throat!!

Arrived in Salta!

Traditional Salteño food, Locro.  Traditional dish contains Chickpeas, beans, meat, pork.  Other varieties will have potato, pumpkin, corn, etc.

Church in cenral Salta

Top of Salta after taking a cable car ride.

7 Colored hill, driving on our way to the Salinas Grandes

Purmamarca, Northern Argentina.  Getting closer to the Bolivian border.
The name of the town can be interpreted as the combination of Aymara language words purma (desert) and marca (city), though desert in that language can refer to uncivilized or not touched by human hand, thus the name is often interpreted as Town of the virgin land.

Salinas Grandes!!

We tried for an action shot, haha didn't quite work out how we'd hoped.

Outside our hotel room in Tilcara.

Two women walking down the street, selling Coca to help with the altitude.

Having a Maté mid-hike

Humahuaca

Humahuaca

Having a beer in Salta!

Asado

Heading south to Cachi

Notice the resemblance? 

Lunch in Cachi

In the middle of nowhere, Nick had us stop at this woman's home where she makes traditional Poncho's and scarves.  Each scarf takes about 4-5 days.

Back in BA.

Well, we had an amazing time.  I think I hit the limit on pictures that I could upload in one post, so maybe I will have to do a second round!  It's hard to put everything into words!  I'm off to help my parents pack up and have one last lunch in BA.  Their flight leaves at 8:30 tonight.  Besooooooooos!

July Already??

La Boca

Montevideo

Well, it's been about 3 months since my last post.. I guess that could mean that I'm having too much fun to blog?  Time is FLYING by here, and I can't believe I'm already half way through my trip.  It's weird to think.  I am awaiting the arrival of my parents who come on Friday morning!  So happy to see them and I couldn't be more excited to show them my life here in Buenos Aires.  The past few months have been really great, although school has been super busy.  Class Monday through Saturday has been tough, and the weekends being only one day has made the weekend seem non-existent.  But, I just finished my last Saturday class until October, since I had credits for the seminar I participated in when I first arrived.  I am so happy to have finished class on the weekends for awhile.  

In May Maud and I hopped over to Uruguay to check out Montevideo.  While I always enjoying seeing a new place, I didn't find Monte to be all that great, and I definitely think Buenos Aires has a ton more to offer, as well as many more beautiful buildings.  It's very easy to get there though, only a 3 hour ferry ride, so we thought why not check it out.  We only spent one night, and it was nice to get away from the city for awhile.  No other trips have been made since then so I am super excited to get out of BA when my parents come.  We are heading to Iguazu Falls, which borders Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.  I thought about hopping over to the Brazilian side of things, but Brazil requires Americans to have a tourist visa to enter the country - and I'm not sure I want to pay the $140 fee just to switch sides while there.  After Iguazu we are heading to Salta, which is in Northwestern Argentina.  We will be doing some traveling around the Salta area, which I have heard is really beautiful and is also home to Argentina's best empanadas (yummm!).  I'm posting some pictures of Maud and I in La Boca, a barrio in BA, and also a few shots of us in Montevideo.  I will try to become better about my blog for the last half of my time here!

Besooooos!