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This is the San Telmo market on Sunday... the streets are filled with artisans, artists, antiques, tango dancers, and a whole slew of other street performers. Not for the claustrophobia prone, but a wonderful way to spend a Sunday!









On the last business day of the year they have a tradition of cutting up paper and throwing it out of the office building windows. This translates to an insane amount of trash (paper) in the streets. We found it amusing that the people do this, only so the city can spend tax money paying people to clean it up!













... or just to use a blower to move it to the other side of the street! (this was a windy day so the blower seemed a bit counterproductive)











This is me on New Year´s Eve with the party favors that the restaurant passed out. Yes, in my hand is a large plastic carrot maraca. It was a fantastic dance prop but sadly was ganked off of our table.









Fortunately Ralph´s blue sparky plastic corn maraca was not stolen (see his left hand). New Year´s just won´t be the same now without plastic vegetable intruments! We had a blast dancing on the sidewalk of Puerto Madero and watching fireworks over the water.














Here with mom and Shirley in La Boca- one of the original neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. It is a wonderfully picturesque area and near the Boca Junior stadium, one of the main teams in Argentina









We made some purchases at the Recoletta artisan fair. Shown in the back is the famous Recoletta cemetary, where Evita is buried.











Ralph and I at a tango show-dinner. We had front row seats which made us just want to get up and dance with them!











Taking a break for lunch and a beer in Recoletta... This was my family´s last day in Argentina, and my mom was very disappointed that they did not serve the national beer, Quilmes. Fortunately we were able to find another bar and they savored their last few glasses on Argentine soil (it was later discovered that you can purchase Quilmes in Colorado!)