Getting rid of the bug was a priority for Wednesday. It cost just $3.00 to get all of our clothes and bags laundered so we dropped off everything but the clothes on our backs at the laundromat. While we waited for those to get cleaned, we stuffed the clothes we were wearing into the freezer to freeze out any final bugs.
There wasn't much to do for an hour or so there. We enjoyed each other's company.
Once the bug was eliminated we went to the zoo for a few hours and then to the barber, as is tradition, to get an authentic hairdo. It's my theory that, in order to properly experience a new country, one must look and feel like they're from there.
Three cool guys
Until Buenos Aires we hadn't taken full advantage of the cuisine, though to be fair there wasn't much opportunity to because we had been traveling a lot. Plus, we ate a lot of junk food because Mike was always begging to stop for ice cream "since we're in South America". I wasn't sure how the two were related and didn't ask.
While I'm not one to blog about food, I will say that our dinner that night at Casa Coupage -- a nine-table "closed door" restaurant -- was one of the finest meals I've ever had, and I've had several. Seven courses, five wine pairings, and a great sommelier who, to tune our senses, passed around vials of essence (for example, a vial of licorice essence) and had us guess what each was based on smell. It was a four-hour dinner to remember*, after which we explored the nightlife with some of Vio's friends who were nice enough to show us around.
* Not everyone remembered
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