Day Sixty Two

     After class we headed to Puerto Madero. A beautiful part of the city, home to the most expensive living which I soon understood why. I can't believe I hadn't been here yet! It was truly beautiful. Right on the water hence the name, and filled with beautiful sail boats and yachts. This is also home to Puente de La Mujer which literally translates to Bridge Woman. It's the famous pedestrian bridge in Buenos Aires and my choice for pic of the day:

     Walked all over the port for awhile. We even went on one of the two old-school warships that are docked in the port now. They are now museums and it was really cool walking on all four levels of the 1911 ship. On the main deck them have the modern version of a cannon, a 1945 war device that shoots artillery shells but looks like a cannon. There are two wheels that you can turn on this gun. One moves the cannon on the vertical axis, the other moves it on the horizontal axis. I thought it was great that they actually allowed people to move the wheels and change the trajectory of the gun. I was turning the wheels as fast as I could, trying to align the cannon with a canoe moving rapidly along the other side of the port. A guy from LA approached me and said "Are you in the Navy?" I said "No I'm just trying to shoot canoes." at which point he informed me that I looked like I knew what I was doing and he had assumed I must be US Navy. 

     We sat at an outdoor cafe right on the pier that looked out over the yacht club. It was great. We got there right before sunset and watched the port get dark while eating some delicious pizza:

     After dinner called it a night so I could catch up on homework and the blog. Feels good to be caught up for the first time in like a week and a half. Sorry again to everyone for being so inconsistent the last week!