El fin de semanna! (the end of the week)

Wow, we have made it through our first week of class and we had to celebrate with our first nice dinner since arriving in BA. After class today we headed home to make a call to Fran's parents via Skype. I still think Skype is the coolest thing! We spoke with Fran's parents for a little while describing the tango show and how things have been going and then our internet connection quit. Since we are getting it for free from the business below our apratment, I guess we cannot complain. Anyway, after the call, I slugged out on our very short and uncomfortable couch while Fran went out to shop. I began to get concerned after about an hour, since she only went out for running shoes and she knew exactly where to find them. (By the way, she thought she packed her running shoes, but only found one when she got here, hee, hee). Well when she returned she had running shoes, some fancy brand of flip flops and some note cards(to make flashcards for spanish vocab and verbs). Well, when we went out for dinner, I find out she went into 3/4 of the shops between our apartment and the restaurant too.

Our dinner. It was the first nice dinner we have had since arriving in BA. All the other nights we have had a sandwich, pizza, or an empanada while we drank beer and people watched. So to celebrate making through the first week of class we decided to splurge a little. We found a well lit place that was well decorated, had many tables with comfortable looking chairs and was fairly well packed. The menu was huge, but we both knew pretty much what we wanted. I wanted one of the famous Argentine steaks and Fran wanted something close to weinersnitzel. I had what they call the bife de chorizo Buenos Aires and Fran's was called Milanesa Italiano. The service was slow to start. We ordered draft beer, called Chop in BA. It took a while to come out so, as expected, we went through them pretty fast. We quickly order a litre of Stella asap and they bring out special glasses and put this huge bottle of Stella in a bucket of ice to keep it cold. Nice. So my steak comes out with two pieces of bacon and a fried egg on top with a grilled half onion and tomato along with sauted onions, small boiled potatoes and a delicious banana pepper on the side. Fran did not have as many side items, but the portion was more than she could finish. We made bets on the total bill while enjoying dinner and each other's conversation, asking the words for knife, fork and spoon and were surprised when the bill came. Fran bet $240 pesos, I bet $160 pesos and the bill was $124 pesos. So with tip we spent about $40 American(what we usually spend just on drinks in Atlanta). It was a nice dinner and a good night.

So today, Saturday, we don't have class and Fran has already gone for a run. I am next. We then plan to make our flashcards and maybe see a movie as it is supposed to rain later today.

Hasta manana!