Today was a beautiful day, once it got started. I spent most of the day trapped in the house. Courtney's apartment has two doors, the apartment door and the door to leave the complex. Both doors use a key to get in and to get out. The door to get out of the complex is the door I couldn't get out of. Turns out what I was doing was turning the key right instead of left. Doors are opposite here, righty loosey lefty tighty. Lacey and Courtney got home around 6 - 6:30 pm. I was finally able to escape. Being locked in wasn't too bad of a deal though. I forced me to finish my paper that was due and it forced me to take a nap...which I needed.
Courtney's apartment is actually very beautiful. When you are on the street you must use your key that looks like the key used in The Secret Garden to get through these metal and glass double doors. The doors are about four feet wide and twelve feet tall. You walk through the doors into a hall. There is no roof. It has a real openness to it because you look up at the sky, but a tight feeling too because two people have a hard time walking side by side. It is very narrow. You walk to the end of the hall where you take a left and walk up three flights of white marble staircases. When you get to the door you must use another Secret Garden Key to get in the door. Once you are inside to lock the door you must close it then push aside the small metal cover that covers the key hole then use the key to lock the door.
The inside of her apartment has really high ceilings. The walls seperating the bathroom and bedrooms are painted bricks. There is a sliding glass door that they always leave open. There is a spiral staircase outside of those doors that take you to the roof. It is a beautiful apartment with beautiful architecture.
Courtney and I went out to a beautiful resturant for dinner. She had salmon and pasta and I had salmon and salad. We shared a bottle of white wine from Mendoza, Argentina and talked US and world politics. I never realized howmuch the rest of the world follows American politics until she pointed it out to me. The night before, when we were out with Juan Pablo and Luis, Jaun had asked us who we were voting for in the next presidential election. Courtney was telling me how people ask all the time who she is voting for and when I meet new people they will ask me as well. It is an interesting reminder as to how much the US does effect the rest of the world.
After dinner I realized how much money I do have here. For our dinner we paid $106 pasos which is less then $20 dollars each for what is a top end meal. I could eat like a king everyday here. It is an odd feeling.
Following dinner we had icecream. The icecream in Argentina is truly incredible. Courtney said that wasn't even the best icecream place either. I am going to hit another one when I get back to BA at the end of my trip.
I didn't take any pictures today because I forgot my camera. I am kind of bumbed, but that is okay.
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