Day 15- TIGRE

6:30am wake up call this morning! We showered and ate breakfast in the dark because the power was out in half the apartment.. seems to be a common thing here. We then headed to our meeting spot near our school to meet up with our program to head to our excursion to Tigre! We took a 45 minute train ride and hopped on a boat to get a tour of the village. Tigre is the Venice of Argentina... well kinda... not really. Tigre is a village surrounded by water, they don't have cars... they boat everywhere. Its like a little countryside with little houses with piers. The grocery store boat comes around daily on a schedule and if you need something you just jump out on your pier and wave them down and get your weekly groceries. Also, the doctor boat comes around once a week with a dentist, pediatrician, ect. The kids take a "school boat" to school! How CRAZY! After about an hour circle around Tigre the boat dropped us off and we headed to the markets. They had some really cool, unique stuff for really cheap. We got a Maté cup and straw, their signature drink here. We also got some wood wall art and a wine rack! We ate lunch at a cute little restaurant outside in the sun on the water! I accidentally ordered a bottle of wine thinking everyone would want some... they didn't.. so I poured the remaining wine in my water bottle and toted it around while we browsed in some more shops! Then... to our surprise we all hopped on a super nice coach bus that took us to the Rio de la Plata! We took some pictures, walked around in the park, and stopped at a cafe for some Submerinos!!! Submerinos are hot milk that they serve with a chocolate bar and you mix it in to make hot chocolate! We hopped back on the bus and it dropped Mads and I off in our neighborhood!