Field Trip

Yesterday my roommates and I took a little field trip after class to explore the city. We grabbed sandwiches from a little shop and walked to the Recoleta Cemetery, where we ate the sandwiches on the grass outside the entrance. Everything was going great until the sprinklers decided to turn on and we had to make a run for it before we got soaked! We almost made it without getting wet. After our picnic, we walked around the cemetery for a quick 15 minutes because I had never seen it. The Recoleta Cemetery is a walled-in cemetery with graves of former members of high-class society. The most well known grave is that of Eva Perón, who is probably the most famous woman in Argentine history. Her grave is supposedly the largest and most elaborate grave, so you think it would be easy to spot. We couldn’t find it. Anywho, the cemetery was very cool. It was almost like a little city on its own because the graves were so large they looked like buildings, and they created all these alleyways to stroll down. I will definitely have to return for a more in-depth visit.

Alleyway in the cemetery

Cool grave

Tara and I in front of a grave

After the cemetery we walked to El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, which has the largest art collection in BA. We didn’t realize it was Monday and that it was closed. We tried to find another museum to go to, but apparently ALL museums in BA are closed on Mondays. Instead we went down the street to La Floralis Genérica, a humungous (23 meters high) steel sculpture of a flower. The coolest thing about this sculpture is that the petals open during the day and close at night. One of the things on my bucket list for Argentina is to watch the petals open in the morning. It ss located in the center of a 4 acre park that attracts a lot of sunbathers on the weekend. After we snapped some pictures (I didn’t get any because my camera died), we laid out in the grass because it was a beautiful day. It was the perfect way to end our trip. The setting and the weather made it hard to leave.