Reserva Ecologistica y Feria de San Telmo

I know that some of you may be expecting a sappy missing home post soon. No dice, people. I'm still not planning on coming back. So here are all of the things that I've been doing that are slowly luring me away from the United States:
Thursday: Pub Crawl
Friday: Biking around the Ecological Reserve and gorging myself on buffet parilla
Sunday: Feria de San Telmo

So Thursday was international pub crawl night and we were feeling the need to speak English while drinking. It was probably one of the most entertaining nights thus far on our trip. I started Thursday by accidentally buying two pairs of shoes. I'm sorry. They were pretty. And both pairs combined were $360 pesos (about 40 bucks). Here is a picture (I'm the brown on the right).

So I started off the night assuming I would break an ankle and go to the public hospital a la vaccine clinic. I will proudly state that after completing the pub crawl and ending at a club, I never fell once. Not even on our walk home at ~4:30 am (early like the gringas we are). If you leave at 4:30 down here, you are leaving before the party is over. 7AM or bust, next time.

Some of my lovely fellow pub crawlers from my program :)

On Friday we woke up (a little too early for our 4:30 return) to go ride bikes around the ecological reserve in Puerto Madero. It was like stepping into a different world. The reserve was BEAUTIFUL and a breath of fresh, clean air.

 Okay. So who remembered that I said bike riding? And then who remembered that I hardly know how to ride a bike? Here is how that went:

Relatively unsuccessful, but good try anyway.

Today we went to the feria en San Telmo. San Telmo is one of the older barrios and it is insanely beautiful with its architecture and cobble stone streets. Each weekend there is a MASSIVE (like 6x4 blocks) fair with all kinds of amazing things. I treated myself to a nutella and banana crepe and then a BEAUTIFUL gold band bracelett that is hand woven around a piece of jade (80 pesos...that's right. i paid about 9 dollars for it). I'll absolutely be returning to that booth. It had my dream jewelry. We met in Plaza Dorrego and then stumbled on an impromptu tango show (literally people pulled from the crowd). It would have gone a whole lot different if I was chosen....

I have a video but it won't let me upload it. I'll try again later!!