Mendoza is a city on the west side of argentina, very close to chile. its much smaller than buenos aires, more mellow, all the streets are lined with trees which is very nice. We were taken care of by a wonderful familes whose daughter is actually living with my parents in san francisco. pretty lucky connection.
One night they made us a gigantic grilled dinner and ben got to taste argentine meat. We sat in the park and drank mate, we went on a bike/wine tasting tour, and we went to the biggest party of the year: Fiesta Grossa which literally translates to Awesome Party.
It was pretty awesome cause there were about 5000 people there and the music was all old cumbia and salsa and ben and i were probably the only gringos in the entire place. But the party took place outside on a rugby field and it turned out to be a freezing night with a significant amount of rain. and of course we stayed until about 5am cause thats how they party down here, even in freezing rain.
Overall it was a wonderful weekend, so nice to see ben and hard to say goodbye
here are some photos
ps. happy kol nidre everyone and have a good yom kippur, I will be fasting all the way down here in argentina
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