Buenos Aires Day 3

Hello again from BA! Saturday night's steak dinner at La Cabrera is pictured below. The waiter was nice enough to advise us to share the short ribs. It was HUGE. The meat was an experience. We think we may have actually gotten a bad cut but the sides were delicious enough to make it worth our while. 

Sunday, we went to the street market at San Telmo where they sell bizarre 

little knick knack

s, including empty Jack Daniels bottles, and people perform on the streets. Margaret has declared it 

official. People love to watch people acting like statues, wherever you are in 

the world. 

Sunday night - soccer match. I am not i

ncluding a picture of the crowd because it's not at all a fair representation. The seats along the sides of the field (where we sat) are for people who just want to yell and scream the whole time. 

The "endzone" seats are filled with either side's TRUE fans. They spend a good half hour stringing up banners and signs across the entire section. There is a band (like a high school band in instrument collection ... but more like like drunken sailors in concept). Only they aren't drunk. Soccer is way too important to alter the senses, and they don't sell beer at the games because the passion level is so high. They sing and jump up and down (think Cameron Indoor Stadium) the ENTIRE game. They do not stop at all. It was a ton of fun to be a part of. 

We went on a bus with a large group of other tourists and am glad we did. This blue collar team was NOT messing around with Americans. Our guide even took our money and went outside of the stadium to get us food (two bottles of water and a bag of Lays). 

The stadium itself is like a high school football game in structure and seat quality ... and there are kids running around everywhere playing their own game of soccer. But there is nothing childish about the game. Sections of bleachers are left empty between fans of opposing teams, and police armed with riot shields stand in those buffer sections for the whole game. The visitor fans all have to exit from a different gate before we and the rest of the home team fans could leave. It's not dark or depressing though. It's uplifting and REALLY fun. I am attaching a photo of my favorite fan and his dog.