The Amazing Walking Stick!

So later in the evening, Gene decides he should take his new cane for a walk! So we walk up to Plaza Dorrego again and enjoy a glass of wine. Sitting on the plaza with a couple hundred other people, listening to a jazz combo, we suddenly realize they are playing the same songs we used to listen to at Sushi Blues in Hollywood, Florida where we met! We order a mini-pizza and more wine and tell each other how amazing it is that we are actually sitting in a plaza in Buenos Aires listening to music at midnight. The combo stops playing and the musicians join a big crowded table next to ours. They're all talking and drinking and laughing and having a great time and I want them to be my friends. One of the men at the table - a big guy in his 60's starts to sing and after a couple of motions across the table, a couple stand up to dance. Someone at their table hands them a handkerchief. I am not sure what to call the type of dance they do with the handkerchief. But they are indescribably fabulous. The music is magic. A while later we hear Peruvian pan pipe music coming from the other side of the plaza. It makes me want to cry...

Don't Cry for Me - Argentina

It took us forever to figure out where to go to get Gene a cane. We actually found a very cool place by the plaza that sells beautiful antique canes of all kinds - in the $US 600 range. Oh, well, we finally figured out that the block after the hospital that we went to before is the place to go. Once we were there, we realized there are something like a dozen medical equipment places in that one block. No problem. A real cane, adjustable, properly designed and weighted and all that, decent looking - 68 pesos - $20. Good deal! Hopefully it will help. So before you start feeling sorry for Gene hobbling about on his cane, go ahead and look at our photos for the day. Just a casual afternoon in Plaza Dorrego - 2 blocks from our apartment - tapas, beer, tango... Don't Cry for Us!

We went wandering up to Plaza Dorrego this afternoon and came across a Flamenco Dance performance. Pretty amazing finding something like that 2 blocks from where you live! We love flamenco - almost as much as tango!

Sunday Afternoon - Plaza Dorrego

Gene gets to stay at the apartment with his foot up, but I get to explore the famous Plaza Dorrego Sunday antique and art fiesta. Music, dancing, art, antiques of every kind and a lot of people! What fun! Hope that Gene will get to see it next week!