We have a lot of things to do today. We woke up at 8am in the morning and went to the hotel’s “free” breakfast. It is said that PJG uses his Marriott’s points to include breakfast, haha.
阿根廷对战沙特阿拉伯队已经快要结束了，沙特竟然2比1战胜了阿根廷队，不可思议 – The match between Argentina and Saudi Arabia is almost over. Saudi Arabia beat Argentina 2-1, which is unbelievable.
The first thing after breakfast we went to the Western Union to withdraw money. From what I had seen on the Internet, in addition to going to Florida Street to find people who exchange money at the blue exchange rate, Western Union also provides services for exchanging money at the blue exchange rate. The exchange rate we both got today is 328.82 pesos to the US dollar, which is the best exchange rate so far, and there is no handling fees. I really don’t know how Western Union makes any money. It’s incredible.
这个店有一个不算太长的队伍 – The line is not too long.从排队到取钱，一共花了30多分钟，需要提供护照和住宿地点信息 – It took more than 30 minutes from queuing to withdrawing money, and you need to provide your passport and accommodation information.300美元一共兑换了98, 646阿根廷比索，这一大钱，在这里简直有富豪的感觉了，哈哈
A total of 98,646 Argentine pesos were exchanged for 300 US dollars. With such a large amount of money, we feel like a rich people here, haha.
下一个任务是洗衣服，在酒店附近找了一家洗衣店，主人竟然是中国人，用中文沟通容易多了，但是我怎么觉得她多收钱了呢，洗一小篮是750比索，一大篮是1,100比索，我感觉我俩的是一小篮，但是她收了我俩1,100，感觉反正是游客，不宰白宰吧 – The next task was to do our laundry. We found a laundry near the hotel. The owner turned out to be Chinese. It is much easier to communicate in Chinese, but why do I feel that she charges us too much? It costs 750 pesos for a small basket and 1100 pesos for a large one. Ours seemed like a small basket, but she charged us 1,100, maybe she feels like we’re tourists. Oh well.
We left the clothes at the laundry, and went to look for a place to buy a phone card. Without the Internet, it is difficult to move around here, because you need Google translation software to talk to the locals. We went to a Movistar phone store, but they didn’t sell cards. They said they are sold at the small kiosk on the street. We went to Florida Street and asked a kiosk selling groceries. They did, it was Claro, from Argentina – 1,000 pesos for a 2GB card, sounded cheap, we bought one. Then we went to another small store to buy another card for PJG. There happened to be an employee working in Claro there, and he spoke English. With his help, we bought a 12GB card for 1,870 pesos.
买电话卡的小卖店 – The small shop for phone cards帮我俩办卡的小伙子 – The guy who helped us with the cards后来一问他的名字是Brian, 和PJG的二哥同名 – Later we asked his name, he was Brian, the same name as PJG’s second brother
在大街上走来走去忙活了一早上，已经是下午1点多了，找了个一个饭店吃午饭。
We walking around the streets for the whole morning, it was past 1 pm, and we found a restaurant for lunch.
跟中国的很多商场一样有这种小商贩，在美国是看不到的 – Like many shopping malls in China, there are small vendors like this, which are not seen much in the US.这个饭店叫Los Inmor Tales，我俩所在的区域是一个商业街区，有点像重庆的解放碑，北京的王府井，或者是任何一个中国城市的步行商业街商业区，虽然很繁华，但是我不我俩喜欢的感觉 – This restaurant is called Los Inmortales. The area we are in is a commercial district, a bit like Jiefangbei in Chongqing, Wangfujing in Beijing, or any pedestrian commercial street in any Chinese city. Although it is very prosperous, I don’t like it much.我点的烤馅饼 – My empenadas这个是辣的牛肉馅，还不错 – This one is spicy minced beef, not bad某人的凯撒沙拉 – Someone’s chicken caesar salad我俩吃午饭的时候，这个人就一直在哪喊，“Cambio, Cambio~”，不知道他一天能揽到多少客人，今天的兑换价格是1比300, 比昨天涨了0.0067 – When we were having lunch, this person kept shouting, “Cambio, Cambio~”, I don’t know how many customers he can get in a day, today’s exchange price is 1:300, which is 0.0067 higher than yesterday
After lunch, we completed our last task – we bought a bus card called SUBE, which is for public transportation such as buses and subways. After searching for a while, we found a small kiosk selling cards, 500 pesos, plus 500 pesos for recharge. The person who recharged said that the general cost of a subway is 40 pesos per person.
卖卡的亭子 – The kiosk for selling cards这种卖彩票的店铺可以充值交通卡 – This shop selling lottery tickets can recharge the transportation cards应该是世界杯的原因，大国旗飘扬 – For the World Cup, their big flag is flying.这种地方总是有欧洲的痕迹 – This kind of place also has traces of Europe买交通卡的地方竟然有很多卖黄金珠宝的店，整条街都是这种闪烁的牌子 – There are many shops selling gold and jewelry in the place where you buy a transportation card, and the whole street is full of such flashing signs.走过这片儿的店铺有点像走在香港的感觉 – Walking through the streets here is a bit like walking in Hong Kong’s jewelry district.两个男人：一个在想给老婆买哪个，一个在想快点儿走吧，哈哈哈 – Two men: one is thinking about which one to buy for his wife, and the other is thinking about leaving quickly, hahaha回酒店的路上正巧碰上了这个游行，好多好多的人，据说是来Picket Unit 社会运动和 Polo Obrero 工会组织的抗议游行，抗议通货膨胀率上升引发的工作条件的问题。 – On the way back to the hotel, we happened to see this protest. A lot of people came to the protest march organized by the Picket Unit social movement and the Polo Obrero trade union to protest the working conditions caused by the rising inflation rate.在酒店附近转悠了一圈，没找到喜欢的饭店，又去了昨晚去的那家烤肉店 – We wandered around nearby the hotel, but couldn’t find a restaurant I liked, so we went to back the barbecue restaurant we were at last night.试了这个沙拉，这里的沙拉没有沙拉酱，就是给你橄榄油和意大利醋，自己加自己拌 – Tried this salad, there is no salad dressing here, just give you olive oil and Italian vinegar, add yourself and mix今晚我点了一份烤乳猪排骨，味道还可以，就是很油腻 – Tonight I ordered a roast suckling pork ribs and it was ok, but very greasy.每个客人点的烤肉下面都有这种炭火，可以在客人桌上继续烤 – There is this kind of charcoal fire under the barbecue ordered by each guest, which can continue to be grilled at the guests tablePJG点了一份阿根廷饺子，他没点酱料，所以没什么味道，哈哈 – PJG ordered an Argentinian tortellini, he didn’t order the sauce, so it didn’t taste good … lol今天办了好多事，吃完晚饭去酒店的俱乐部的大阳台坐了一会儿 – We did a lot of things today, and after dinner we sat on the balcony of the hotel club for a glass of wine.
All in all a very nice day. The weather is improving and we have decided to go early to Uruguay so tomorrow we need to go buy our tickets!
James on the sea wall.
Maybe everyone is charged a large basket and a small is one piece of clothing!
Brian is a good name.
You only see small vendors inside the malls at Christmas time.
So the sauce is sold separately, how does one know that?
Good thing your plans are flexible. I’m late commenting because of Thanksgiving.
这么快就第六天了！
看来是忙碌的一天呀，买到一个12g的卡可真不错！
还有烤馅饼呢，世界各地什么吃的都有。
那张两个男人的照片很有趣。
哈哈
James on the sea wall.
Maybe everyone is charged a large basket and a small is one piece of clothing!
Brian is a good name.
You only see small vendors inside the malls at Christmas time.
So the sauce is sold separately, how does one know that?
Good thing your plans are flexible. I’m late commenting because of Thanksgiving.