Day 17: Friday, July 15, 2011

We hung around the house today because we went to Horacio’s concert with his 10-12 year-old students in Mercedes, which is an older colonial town in the province of Buenos Aires an hour from downtown. They had guest players come to help the little kids sound better.  They take everything serious here.  After the concert, we went to the cathedral of Mercedes, which was across the street from the concert.  It was a gorgeous old gothic cathedral.  There was a dude smoking inside, which was a little strange.  Then we went back home and picked up Ruth and the rest of the family.   We went to the church, where the party was going to be and helped set up the tables and chairs.  It was frustrating because they would tell us one thing and we’d do it and then they’d come back and change it and have us redo it.  There were a lot of people giving their input so things were constantly changing.  It didn’t help that I didn’t know the language either.  Then we got home at 9:30 and had really good empanadas and pizza.  Then we went right to bed.