Two Beers and a Pretzel

This city has redeemed itself…

As tourist pub crawls go, this one started oddly.  You pay at the hostel, then they give you the address of a park on the other side of town and tell you that the bus leaves from there in 30 minutes.  I figured the bus would take me there, but I apparently made a few erroneous assumptions in my logic.

I met an Irish couple before we attempted navigating the Buenos Aires subway system.  That worked, but we still had to walk 20 minutes to the park.  Once you get there, it’s pretty obvious which crowd of people are the tourist gringos.

There were a log of Brazilians and Brits on the crawl, as well as girls from Sweeden, Germany, Chicago, Alabama  and Texas.  Fun crowd.

The tour company actually posts photos on the web at http://www.pubcrawlba.com and http://picasaweb.google.com/pubcrawlBA3

I don’t think last nights pics are up yet.

We started in the park with free beer and pizza.  The organizers gave us bracelets to identify the crawlers.  We walked to 3 pubs where everyone on the tour got a free welcome shot and discounted drink prices.  After the 3rd pub we boarded a bus to the disco.

The last club had a hip-hop DJ from NYC.  Kind of annoying, actually.  I’m not much for that type of place, except that an old school break-dance fight broke out.  Some of them were pretty good…

The Sweedish girls and Brazilian guys held me back from breaking out my old white-boy moves from my years in Detroit.  Actually, I just couldn’t find anyone to do the Ghostbusters breakdance (where you lay on the floor and someone grabs your feet and runs around in a circle).

I left the disco at 4 am with a taxi full of Brazilians.  Back at the hostel, we ran into a few other crawlers and set off to find the Argentinean equivalent of a Waffle House.  On the main avenue (supposedly the largest avenue on the world), we found  one open place near the famous obelisk.

A Brit, Brazilain, Texan and I had grilled ham & cheese.  I had water.  A few of them actually drank more beer.  I went to bed around 5:30 AM and had to be up before 11 for checkout (a single room is like $60/night, so I switched into a dorm with a bunch of the Brazillians I met for $13/night).

I’m leaving right now for the bike tour!!