South American Adventure Part 1 - Buenos Aires

I have so many pictures that it is really hard to choose which ones to include in my blog. Desi and I spent Wednesday (We had an overnight flight that got in at 7:30am on Wednesday. We were so tired, but we did get to fly first class!) and Thursday in Buenos Aires. These pictures are actually from our second day there when we went to the zoo. The zoo was the most beautiful zoo I have ever seen. It was so open and green and had beautiful old buildings everywhere (I love old buildings). The pictures just don't do it justice. The above pic is just one of the many gorgeous old buildings there.

The zoo was also huge. They had every animal it seemed, except my favorite the red panda. Knoxville has that going for it. They also let you feed most of the animals with special food you could buy, so the animals were always at the fence where you could see them.
There were also just random animals running around free like peacocks, nutrias, and some animal that looked kinda like a miniature kangaroo. Neither Desi or I could figure out what it was.

This is just a random statue at the entrance to the zoo that I found amusing. I don't know who that guy is supposed to be (maybe the founder of the zoo?) but he looks a lot like Colonel Sanders.
This is a picture from our first day. For the first day we pretty much just walked around and saw the sights. This is the Plaza de Congresso. Most monuments and fountains were behind fences so you couldn't get to them. I assume this was to protect them from vandalism because any statue not in a fence had graffiti all over it - kind of sad.
In this picture we were standing in the Plaza de Mayo looking at the Casa Rosada. This is where Evita gave her famous speech. There were lots of protests here and in the Plaza de Congresso during the days we were there.
This is the Avenida 9 de Julio - one of the widest streets in the world. Oddly enough, this is also almost the exact same place where, 2 days later, 2 ladies would attempt to steal from Desi and I using an elaborate scheme involving bird poop. I was the unfortunate one who got pooped on, but fortunately the "poop" was only lotion.