Don't Cry for Me, Argentina

The last stop on our South American trip was Buenos Aires. We flew out of the small airport at Iguazu on the Argentina side of the waterfalls.

 I took this picture out of the window of the airplane as we were landing in Buenos Aires.

 I love it when airports have nice welcome signs to their country or city! 

Our hotel was the Pan American, which was right in the middle of downtown, overlooking this plaza with the obelisk and the "BA" standing for Buenos Aires.

There was even a demonstration going on at the city center plaza while we were there, but we didn't know what it was about.

Our first stop on the city tour was to the Presidential Palace and plaza.

 This is the balcony where Eva Peron would wave to her adoring fans.

We watched a changing of the guard while we were in the plaza.

We visited the large cathedral in Buenos Aires.

 It has the tomb of the liberator (from Spain) of Argentina in 1816.

 Our next stop was the La Boca area, which is a colorful touristy part of town.

 I took this picture trying to get a good shot of the flag of Argentina.

 We went to the city cemetery

 to see where Eva Peron is buried.

That night we had a tango lesson at the hotel.

Afterwards we went to the best ice cream shop in town, (according to our tour guide)

 but I didn't think it was nearly as good as the ice cream we had at Iguazu Falls!

We posed for a night time photo in front of the obelisk.

This was a cool sculpture that we saw as we were driving around Buenos Aires.

There were lots of beautiful flowering trees in April.

We went to the Grand Splendid Bookstore, billed as the most beautiful bookstore in the world. It's housed in an antique theater that was built in 1919.

 Our pictures definitely don't do it justice- it really was incredible!

We found an open air market and found a vendor selling nativity sets. Lots of stores were closed because it was Easter weekend so I was happy to find somewhere to buy souvenirs.

I  bought a cute one that the vendor claims was made in Argentina.

One of the days we were in Buenos Aires there was an all day optional tour to a working ranch that we didn't take, so we took an Uber and went to temple instead.

The temple was on the outskirts of the city and it took about 40 minutes to get there.

It was very busy while we were there because it was the Easter holiday weekend and lots of people had time off from work and school.

There weren't many workers who spoke English in the temple, but we were able to get along okay doing an endowment session.

 Another day we spent visiting the Japanese garden in Buenos Aires.

 Again it was very crowded because of it being Easter weekend.

 Near the Japanese garden there was a Rose garden.

 Our last night in Buenos Aires we were treated to a farewell dinner in a nice restaurant. Kent and I had steak almost every day we were in Argentina! After the dinner we walked around the city, and enjoyed the lovely evening with a full moon.

As we were driving to the airport the next morning we drove right past the temple again, so I took this photo from the bus. Our tour guide even pointed out the "Mormon Temple", so we thought that was pretty awesome.

 We loved our trip to Brazil and Argentina!