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December 31, 2005
Bring on the New Year
This morning I set out to refill our antibiotic prescription at a pharmacy as we both want to get over this bug before we head off to New Zealand. Unfortunately, the pharmacies I tried wouldn’t fill it and said I would need to head to a doctor. Hopefully, Buenos Aires will be more lax on the prescription drugs.
We spent the day exploring more of the town. We also had a tragedy with our laptop. Back in Peru the screen was partially shattered in a very bumpy bus ride through that Andes. Today, the crack that was formerly only in the top right corner and would only sometimes make the computer unusable, spread across the entire screen making the computer almost worthless. The good news it is under warranty. The bad news is that they will only cover the repairs in the U.S. We are trying to figure out what to do with Toshiba but hopefully it will be resolved as quickly as possible.
Tonight for dinner we ate on the balcony of a refurbished lighthouse that overlooked the river and Buenos Aires. It was a surprisingly good meal and at midnight, while there was no big countdown, 30 minutes of fireworks up and down the river, both professional and amateur, let everyone know that the new year had begun. Surprisingly, there didn’t seem to be as many fireworks in Buenos Aires across the river. Only later would I learn this was because they were an hour behind us and it wasn’t yet 2006.
We spent some time on the dock where we could here a Cuban band play salsa tunes from inside a nearby restaurant and then headed into town to people watch for a bit. It seemed the entire town was out either cruising the main streets in their cars or motos, while others walked around with drinks wishing everyone “Feliz Año”(...i.e. Happy New Year). From a payphone we called our family back home to let them know we had officially made it to 2006. It was a fun night.
Posted by Peter Mork at December 31, 2005 3:02 PM
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