The Ambassador invited John and me to a dinner in honor or Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford this week. There were about 15 people at the table, most of whom were involved in agriculture. It was interesting!
Last Sunday John took me to San Telmo for lunch at La Brigada – it’s a fun venue with good steaks. The walls are covered with soccer memorabilia. Despite it being a popular place with tourists, there were lots of Argentine families there, as well, and the food and service were good. We browsed in an English language bookstore afterward and picked up a couple of bottles of wine at a neat little wine store, Vinotango.
Today we had lunch at Kansas – sort of like a Bennigan’s in the US. But first, we watched around 40,000 runners complete a half-marathon that went by our apartment. You can see a bandstand in the photo, as well as some of the runners in the earlier group – what a gorgeous day with the river in the distance! There was a live band all morning cheering on the runners.
Lea and I met for a yummy lunch Saturday at a simple place called Cantina Mandia – with really good, fresh food.
We watched “Dangerous Liaisons” this week, followed by a Glenn Close classic, “Fatal Attraction.” I finished reading “The Tennis Partner” and enjoyed it – Verghese is such a gifted writer. I just started “You Should be Grateful,” about adoption from the perspective of a Black woman adopted into a white family.
I think I spoke too soon about Flavia last week. She gave us quite a scare this weekend when she got very weak and stopped eating or drinking for two days. She’s slowly coming out of it, but I really didn’t think she would make it through Friday night.
