Ushuaia, Buenos Aires & the New Year

Hello everyone,
We are now in the city of Buenos Aires... we took a flight here from Ushuaia- the most southerly town in the world, however there is an island more in the south called "Port Whiliams" with an army base on it. Surprisingly Ushuaia wasn´t a complete hole and turned out to be a pretty nice and lovely looking town.

We were able to find an open flight to on Christmas. It was actually very lucky because people reserve them month ahead. After being in a small towns for over a month it was a big change to suddenly get to a huge city(12 million people). We flew above it at night and it was amazing... like a huge carpet of lights that doesn´t seem to end...
The city itself is much like a regular European city in its architecture and atmosphere. It is weired to suddenly be in a city all the time.. we keep expecting glaciers to pop out in the middle of the street.

We have a nice hotel in the center, ran by a very old couple(of man...) and Alon is counting on their sudden departure before we check out so we wouldn´t have to pay :)

We couldn´t find any Israeli´s to exchange books with, so now am a proud owner of the sixth Harry Potter book(its the only book they had in English besides the adventures of Tom Soyer).
Besides, I am not the one carrying the 600 pages book.... more exercise for Alon...
However the more important news is that somebody has finished a book of his own!!!!!!!!!!

Then he off course announced, he is now taking unlimited time off reading to recuperate from the strain. I took advantage of his weakness and pushed him into a barber´s shop closing the door behind him and leaving him at the mercy of the elderly smelly hairdresser.

We spent the new years at a Tango restaurant which was much similar to Russian restaurants.
We took a picture with the dancers and though the hot half naked dancer hugged Alon and put her leg on him (brrrr...), because I managed to spill some wine on his pants before, it looks in the picture as if she is raising her leg and peeing on him like a dog...so i was pretty pleased with the result...
off course what we didin´t know is, they moved the clock the day before, although it seemed a bit odd that the taxi driver came to take us 45 minutes early... we only realized what happened when at 23:00 there was a big bang and everyone started kissing and dancing like crazy...
besides that the party itself was really fun!!!

We spent the rest of the night chasing a cockroach in our hotel room...(actually Alon was jumping around with a towel screaming and cursing while I hid in the shower threatening to sleep there in my sleeping bag if the damn bug isn´t dead).

so...HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!! Have a great 2008!!!!!
hope you had fun...

dina & loni