look, i'm back!

i am not entirely sure how more than a week has gone by without a peep from me. actually, that's a bald-faced lie. i know exactly how it happened. i arrived in buenos aires on sunday, october 5 and have been playing with my sister ever since. let me give you a rundown of what we've been up to...

* dining at ridiculously good restaurants
* staying out late (the 'until the birds start singing in the morning' kind of late)
* going to the argentina-uruguay world cup qualifier football game
* wandering around buenos aires - different neighborhoods, gardens, parks, etc.
* eating steak
* shopping (i have doubled the number of shoes i have here - brought four pairs with me on this trip and have, in the last week, acquired four more)
* enjoying spa treatments (i had my first hot stone massage) at our hotel
* drinking malbec and torrontes
* lounging around around fantastic hotel, in the room, in the lobby, a little by the pool (though the weather has been iffy)
* watching tango

good times have been had by all, but all good things must come to an end, they say. (i don't know why people say that - it's really not true.) my sister left argentina last night to return to chicago and i left our fabulous hotel this morning to return to hostel-land, which is more in my budget range. i'm currently looking for an apartment to live in for the next month, which i claim will help me save money on food. keep your fingers crossed for me that it actually will...