Liz is here!!!!!

For those of you who know Liz (used to go to Vanderbilt, now goes to NYU) she finally made it to Buenos Aires!!! She´s going to be studying with NYU here for the whole semester which means we get to spend the next 6 weeks together!!! Last night we met in Recolta and had a fantastic dinner and then went to Volta to get ice-cream. It was honestly the best ice-cream I´ve ever had (I´m pretty sure it was better than Spain´s, which is saying something!). If you didn´t know this already, Argentines LOVE dulce de leche. So of course, it´s incorporated into every flavor of ice cream available. I had capuccino dulce de leche flavored ice cream and Liz had coconut dulce de leche. It was INCREIBLE!


Now that I´ve been here for two weeks, I´m starting to plan trips to other cities in Argentina and nearby countries. Here´s my tentative schedule (click the cities to see photos!):


Feb 13-15 Mendoza, Argentina
This is wine-country, basically the Napa Valley of Argentina. I´m going with 3 people from my ISA group and we´re going on an all-day wine tour on bicycles! Im not really sure that drinking wine all day and trying to balance on something with two wheels is smart, but whatever!

Feb 26-Mar 1 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!!!!
I´m so excited to go here! Brazil has a bad safety reputation but we´re staying in Ipanema which is the safest part of town. It´s Carnival season so it should be an amazing experience! The beaches are beautiful here and so are the people. Also, they speak Portuguese, so hopefully I will learn some while I´m there.

Mar 2-Mar 6 Calafate and Perito Moreno, Argentina
This is southern Argentina (Patagonia) which is very close to Antarctica. Perito Moreno is a HUGE glacier (over 5 km wide and around 200 ft high above the water). This trip is organized by ISA and my whole group is going.