duende.

Duende is my favorite word right now. It means "gnome". To call someone a little gnome, you just say, "duendito". There is absolutely no reason to know this word, which is why I think it's my favorite.

The last couple of nights we have gone to tango concerts. They were awesome. Thursday it was tango-electronico and Friday was a concert with a lady singing. Every time they finish playing and start talking we are thrown off they aren't speaking in English. The instruments they use are great...I think the best though is the acordion. I wish several of my friends from home could have seen these shows because I really think they would have had a much greater appreciation for all of it. At the one last night we had a drink called a submarino. It's like a hot chocolate but way better because it's steaming hot milk served with pieces of dark chocolate that melt in your milk. I'm convinced it will change your world when you taste this bad boy.

If I could have a random pastime while I was here I am pretty sure it would be riding in taxis with Kasey all day. The best is when we get in the taxi and start a conversation with them and 4 seconds later we can't understand what they are saying because they talk WAY too fast and Kasey just starts laughing. Fact you should know: Kasey has the best laugh in the world. So as soon as she starts laughing, I start laughing and then it just gets silly, really.

And during the day Saturday Kasey and I went for a run, which was perfect. I felt like I was being set free to go crazy. We do a lot of walking but we also do a lot of sitting so it was freedom to run in the park. On Saturdays there is a HUGE market really close to where we live so a big group met there for a while and then we went to the cemetary where Evita Peron is buried...trying to find a grave here really is like going on a giant scavenger hunt, only the reward at the end is a tomb instead of a giant prize. I hope that's not disrespectful.

On Saturday night we went to a crazy little place to for dinner. This place was out-of-this-world ridiculous because they have every game you could ever imagine. So while we waited for dinner we played JENGA. Genius. Whoever thought of this deserves a very high "high-5". Remember me mentioning that dinner is late here?...we got our dinner at 12...aka midinight. What?!