Following a very busy and stressful school year, Kristin and I took it upon ourselves to get as much fun and relaxation as we could out of this summer. What better way than to take a month-long vacation to hang out in Argentina, hanging out and staying with some very cool Argentine people. For the majority of our trip we will be staying with a lovely little family that I met and worked with the first time I went to Argentina. Horacio is a music composer who actually wrote a 5 movement piece for our Calvin Orchestra Quintet as well as an orchestral piece for Calvin Orchestra.
Our itinerary for the trip, or lack thereof, is going to be what makes this blog so very interesting since we have a fairly short list of things we will be doing over the entire month. At this point, we plan on getting to know Buenos Aires very well in the first two weeks of our trip. It just so happens that the Copa America soccer tournament will be going from July 1-24 in Argentina. We got tickets to see two games: Brazil v. Venezuela and Mexico v. Uruguay. We also plan on taking a weekend trip to Montevideo, Uruguay. The last event planned so far for our trip is a vacation to Iguazu Falls with Horacio and his family.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Spanish language, "Buenos Aires" is best translated as meaning "Fair Winds." As we will be there in July, Argentina's climate is in the dead of winter since it is the opposite of ours. Fortunately their "dead of winter" is around 47-57 degrees fahrenheit and sunny to partly cloudy. Fair winds will blow cooler, but we still plan on seeing and doing many new things worth sharing. ¡Viva Argentina!
