Day 8 - Argentinian Adventures

Today we woke up early and hit the streets. We met up with Chandler and Michael at the University and then headed to MALBA (picture below) an Argentinian modern art museum. Very creative, unique, and avant-garde art! The Yoko Ono exhibit is coming the day we leave, so sorry to miss out on that! After a couple hours staring at wall art we walked a very indirect route to Palermo for lunch. We all ordered pasta (picture below) and it was our most expensive meal yet, around 80 for 4 people! We really splurged on that one. By this point we had walked almost 7 miles and were worn out, so our "museum filled day" ended with only one museum visit. After lunch we went to another restaurant that serves "mate". Mate (picture below) is a local drink that Argentines typically only drink at home. There are very few restaurants that serve it. When they brought us the mate we had no idea how to clean, brew, or pour it. We made a huge fool out of ourselves and had everyone in the restaurant staring and laughing at us. The waitress ended up bringing us a new one and tried to explain it. After a while, a local customer came up to us and told us we were still doing it wrong! Literally so embarrassing and truly earned the title "idiots abroad". I'm sure our waitress and the entire staff will be telling this story for a long time. We then walked to the SUBE and grabbed medicine for Taylor at the Farmacia. We are home now and are dreading dinner in an hour! We are so full from eating SO MUCH bread all day, and are having MORE pasta for dinner! Using tonight to catch up on some homework and rest up for our big day tomorrow! CIAO! Mádison