The road to Wine Country

Our last night in BA was a blast. We arrived around 5pm, had a couple beers on the balcony of our hotel room and then hopped in a cab to go across town for dinner. A co-worker of Lisa's had recommended a place called El Obrero in the neighbourhood of Boca. Boca is a working class district and when we crossed into it our driver reached back and locked the cab door.

El Obrero was awesome. When we arrived the place was empty but all the tables had reservation signs on them; fortunately we had made a reservation as subsequent diners without reservations were turned away. Within half an hour, the place was packed. We had a super yummy cold calamari to start as well as an OK arugula salad followed by two excellent steaks! Christos finished his off (as well as most of a plate of potatoes) but Lisa could only get half way through hers. The waitress was excellent; both attentive and appropriately chatty. After dinner we took a cab back to Palermo and dropped in on a tango bar. When we arrived at 11:30pm classes were underway and we were told the actual dancing would not start until 2am! So we watched the class for a bit before heading back to our hotel as we had an early flight the next day to Mendoza. Back at our hotel, Christos set the alarm for 6:45am and we retired for a short sleep. When we awoke we got ready to head to the airport and then Lisa realized that Christos' blackberry was still on Uruguay time; in other words it was an hour ahead so it went off at 5:45am BA time! We had a little rest then it was off to the airport and the two hour flight to Mendoza. When we arrived in Mendoza our driver was not there to pick us up so we hopped in a cab to our hotel. Lisa put on her bitchy voice with our tour planner on the phone and when we arrived we discovered a bottle of wine with an apology from our tour planner; this smoothed things over quite a bit. We had a lovely salad lunch with really good arugula before heading back to our hotel for a little downtime. Mendoza is much hotter than we had anticipated; well over 30 degrees today and the forecast for tomorrow is even hotter with a high of 39! We shall see how much biking we manage to achieve ...