Day 9: Discoteca Dissapointment

This entire night turned out to be a pretty big disappointment. We started with a little pre game at our dorm. We caught cabs to the discoteca around 1am (that is when it opens) and arrived at Club Pacha around 1:15. On our walk through the parking lot I noted an awful lot of tour busses and what looked like very young kids. We reached the door and were immediately turned away. The club had been reserved for a giant party for 15 year olds. Some of our girls had to go in to use the bathroom and they reported that they were indeed serving milk. We were forced to walk to the only other club in the area called Jet. We had 5 guys in the group, all of the girls got in for free and the guys had to pay about $17 each but the five of us got two bottles of champagne. Overall, I thought the club was nothing special. The music was too loud and the lights were obnoxious...i really felt like I was stoned due to the LED strobe light effects...it wasn't really fun. Or...maybe I'm just getting old...whatever. I caught a cab back to the dorm around 4:30 am and my roommates did not get back till about 8am....crazy.

Today, I took the subway to one of the more ritzy barrios in Bs As called Palermo. This was a great place to explore. Tons of shopping along the streets, lots of street art, lots of bars, lots of street side dining and tons of markets set up in the street where local artists were selling their wares. I probably walked about 3-4 miles exploring the neighborhoods. This was truly where many of the beautiful people of Bs As reside. This is a great motivator to study my Spanish! Another interesting fact was that in some of the busier areas, they had stores that were bars by night and during the day, they sold clothes and other things. They roll out clothing racks, through table clothes over the pool tables and sell merchandise right next to the bar. You could drink and shop all day. It made me wonder why they don't do this in Georgetown. These places were selling food, drinks and merchandise...what a great way to leverage the prime retail space. Thats it for today, tonight I might find a local bar and tomorrow is reserved for exploring the San Telmo barrio and doing laundry.

Some of you may have noticed the slide show I put up, I'll update this about once a week. Right now the pics are pretty bad but i'm working on it.