Friday: a little of everything

Rain accompanied by thunder for most of the night and into morning. Plus it has turned cold, 4 degrees C. Our work departure was delayed until 11 a.m. when we learned that only 7 people would be needed to work inside on Site Three, Graciela's house. The others could go to Site One, Claudia's house and work outside in the rain, but there was little enthusiasm for that idea, so 7 who decided to headed out on the bus.

Next to our hotel, the oldest bar in town, Cafe Tortoni, was the ideal spot to wait out the couple of hours of our delay. For more than one hundred years, it has been host to the elite of Buenos Aires and its international visitors.


ALEX AT THE ENTRANCE.

INSIDE THE CAFE, MARIE ADMIRES AN
HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATED POSTER.

For those left behind, it was time for a change of pace. Three went shopping and four of us went to the Teatro Colon, the Buenos Aires opera house owned by the city. Competed after contracts and work with two architects from Germany and then Italy, the  building was finally finished when an architect from Belgian joined the project team in 1908. The guided tour in English was very interesting.



TEATRO COLON:
WITH NANCY BEHIND THE CAMERA AND
DONNA, JAN AND MARIE. 

OPERA HOUSE STAGE AND BALCONIES.