...at
the park, in the museum, and at the theater. After class, I took the
bus to the center of the city and walked around by myself for a bit. I
got some gelato and made my way towards the main plaza. I meandered
through the artisans and then decided to go to the measure of modern art
located in the center of the plaza. After looking at the exhibits in
the (extremely tiny) museum, I headed up the street to the peatonal,
where I wandered through shops and stopped to peak inside the church. It
was then time to meet some friends to go to dinner. After which, we had tickets for a show.
That
was a bit of a mess. First, the restaurant we picked has many locations
around the city. In fact, there are two of them on the same road. This
wouldn't be that bad except that they also have similar street numbers.
"Logical" is not a word I would use to describe very many things, or
anything, about Mendoza. On this street, the numbers go down to zero and
then start climbing again. Therefore, the two restaurants were both in
the 800s, but 16 blocks apart. Add in the fact that they are both across
from the same gas station and the result is a confused group of people.
In the end, we all made it. It was later than we wanted, but the
restaurant didn't open until then anyway, because 8:00 is early for
dinner.
We
ended up enjoying our meal and making it to the show on time. Dirty
Dancing: The Musical. We had fun. I wouldn't give the show great
reviews, but we all left happy. It was more of a dance review to the
sound track to the movie than a musical. So, if you had seen the movie
it was wonderfully enjoyable. If you haven't, you were a bit lost. I
realize that I am probably the only person who hasn't seen it. It's one
of the many movies that I should really get around to watching. The
really cool part was listening to the mix of English and Spanish. Some
songs were all Spanish, some all English, and some were a mix.
As always, photos:
From the plaza:
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| I love that the iron work looks like grape vines. |
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| The fountains dyed red to look like wine might be a little over the top, however. |
I just saw dirty dancing for the first time this past fall. We can add it to the this of things for our friday night educational movies next year! ;-) miss you!
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