Day Sixty Four

     Happy Thanksgiving! Today was my first time celebrating Thanksgiving out of the country and away from my family. Definitely different and I wish I could have gone back for today.

     I did see Indians playing the flutes though:

     For dinner I went with Zack, Erin, Kitty and my two new English friends Sam and Scarlett to an all you can eat asado (meat) place. We had a great time, well at least I did. Erin doesn't really eat meat... but they had a great salad bar! 

     Afterwards we were all beyond stuffed, except for Erin of course, who wanted to go bowling. I personally love bowling and together the two of us were able to convince Zack really easily. We only had time to bowl one game. I won a beer and wings from the Tap house from the other two as I was the winner with a measly 138.

    Afterwards Zack went home and as it was Erin's last night and she wasn't quite ready to call it a night yet. Time for one last beer in the Paris of South America. I had heard of this secret bar.. a prohibition bar... and we set out to find it.

     The bar was amazing. It has just been ranked top 50 bars in the world, a rating well deserved. There are two men out-front in suites. The bar was unmarked from the street, just an address. The two men ask us what our business is. We say we would like a drink. They let us through the door and tell us for numbers. 3-5-4-2. Inside the door is a typical foyer, except that you notice a phone booth at the end of it. We step into the phone booth and dial the four numbers. There is a buzzing and the backside of the booth pops open a tad. We push on it and the secret door opens. The music hits us right away, 1920's jazz. We walk into the bar with chandeliers, giant red leather couches and chairs, and the bar tenders all wearing suspenders and bow-ties. We have just entered the coolest bar of my life. At the bar we order two Manhattens. Our bar tender spent about 7 minutes making our drinks. Maybe ten. And just our drinks, not multitasking at all. It was amazing. It was almost like watching an artist work. We learned that this guy has gone to two international bar tender contests. Both of which were expenses paid because he has won the Argentina contest and was flown to Amsterdam and Italy to represent Argentina. Pretty amazing.

     When we left it was such a rude awakening stepping out of the foyer and back onto the street of the 21st century. I will definitely be back.