DAY-04: Buenos Aires, Hot As Fire
DAY-04: Buenos Aires, Hot As Fire
Day – 04: Friday, February 21, 2020
Starting Location: Hotel Emperador, Buenos Aires, AR
Ending Location: Hotel Emperador, Buenos Aires, AR
It's cooler today than yesterday, will have to consider a jacket if we go out walking.
Breakfast was the same as yesterday, though I did have a couple of the buffet fried eggs, yes fried eggs but only the yolk! We again met up with fellow cruisers and Sheila had the opportunity to further the dialogue with the gentleman from Los Altos.
Today the topics of "gates & driveways" came up, who's got the bigger and badder security gate and if that is all equal who has the longest driveway.
We hung out in the room until early afternoon but it was time to get out. Today's mission was to walk toward the National Museum of Art, various national monuments and parks and the Recoleta Cemetery.
En-route we came upon a Hard Rock Cafe and a Starbucks so of course we stopped, not for at tee shirt or coffee but to secure a Buenos Aires Starbucks cup.
With cup in hand Sheila had walked far enough and decided to return to the hotel.
Around 3:40 I received a text from Sheila:
Back to the fire; Sheila said that smoke was pouring out of the north side of the building. When she arrived no one was allowed to enter the building and anyone inside was being escorted out. The power was out in the hotel so there were no lights, HVAC and of course no elevators. Firetrucks did arrive on scene and laid out several firehoses toward and into the underground garage area.
When I arrived back at the hotel around 4:30 Sheila and others were sitting in the lobby area and drinks had been served. The cruise crowd had assembled and continued the pre-cruise posturing and dialogue.
The last place on my search list for the day was the Recoleta Cemetery, an above ground burial site with wall to wall crypts from small to huge. Most people including myself were looking for one of Argentina's most famous personages, Eva Peron.
Seems that when she died in the early 1950's the country planned for a huge monument with the idea that "Evita" would be embalmed and on eternal display much like Lenin in Moscow. For whatever reason, likely to do with federal money that grand plan did not work out. After several moves and entombments, Evita was returned to her original family the Duartes, Evita's casket was moved to the Duarte crypt where it remains today.
With my walk finished I returned to the hotel as mentioned above. It wasn't until about 5:30 that we were allowed to return to the rooms as by then the fire department was cleaning up, rolling up their hoses and preparing to move out.
After returning to the room for a short while we headed out for dinner having a great meal at Piegari Ristorante, a short walk from the hotel.
I had a filet of sole entree and Sheila had ravioli, a lot of ravioli, perhaps enough for three people. (For those who traveled to Australia & New Zealand with us, you might remember the ravioli story from dining in Wellington, NZ). I had a great Malbec wine with my meal, one of the best wines I was to experience in Argentina.
It's cooler today than yesterday, will have to consider a jacket if we go out walking.
Breakfast was the same as yesterday, though I did have a couple of the buffet fried eggs, yes fried eggs but only the yolk! We again met up with fellow cruisers and Sheila had the opportunity to further the dialogue with the gentleman from Los Altos.
Today the topics of "gates & driveways" came up, who's got the bigger and badder security gate and if that is all equal who has the longest driveway.We hung out in the room until early afternoon but it was time to get out. Today's mission was to walk toward the National Museum of Art, various national monuments and parks and the Recoleta Cemetery.
En-route we came upon a Hard Rock Cafe and a Starbucks so of course we stopped, not for at tee shirt or coffee but to secure a Buenos Aires Starbucks cup.
With cup in hand Sheila had walked far enough and decided to return to the hotel.
Around 3:40 I received a text from Sheila:
Meanwhile did I mention that I continued with the walk in search of "the arts" and historical monuments and memorials of Argentina.
Back to the fire; Sheila said that smoke was pouring out of the north side of the building. When she arrived no one was allowed to enter the building and anyone inside was being escorted out. The power was out in the hotel so there were no lights, HVAC and of course no elevators. Firetrucks did arrive on scene and laid out several firehoses toward and into the underground garage area.
Back to my walk, after Starbucks I walked by the National Museum of art and several large statues of famous Argentinians.
The last place on my search list for the day was the Recoleta Cemetery, an above ground burial site with wall to wall crypts from small to huge. Most people including myself were looking for one of Argentina's most famous personages, Eva Peron.
Seems that when she died in the early 1950's the country planned for a huge monument with the idea that "Evita" would be embalmed and on eternal display much like Lenin in Moscow. For whatever reason, likely to do with federal money that grand plan did not work out. After several moves and entombments, Evita was returned to her original family the Duartes, Evita's casket was moved to the Duarte crypt where it remains today.
With my walk finished I returned to the hotel as mentioned above. It wasn't until about 5:30 that we were allowed to return to the rooms as by then the fire department was cleaning up, rolling up their hoses and preparing to move out.
After returning to the room for a short while we headed out for dinner having a great meal at Piegari Ristorante, a short walk from the hotel. 
I had a filet of sole entree and Sheila had ravioli, a lot of ravioli, perhaps enough for three people. (For those who traveled to Australia & New Zealand with us, you might remember the ravioli story from dining in Wellington, NZ). I had a great Malbec wine with my meal, one of the best wines I was to experience in Argentina.
With dinner over and a big day tomorrow we headed back to the hotel where Sheila did some packing and I worked on these posts. By 11:00 it was lights out.
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