Finally Caught Up!

So I'm finally caught up with my blogs, and this blog post is actually about today! In addition, I have uploaded some pictures onto Facebook.

Yoontae and I have been borderline sick (Yoontae more so than me), so we've been sleeping in a bit but still doing everything else pretty much the same. Today, we woke up around 10 to 10:30 and took the metro towards the cemetary we had heard about on our tour yesterday. Between the metro station and the cemetary, we stopped to get a hot dog with mushroom sauce, mayonnaise, and these onion fry chip things. Also, we stopped by some stores to look for scarves and jeans because we are not prepared for the cold that we will be confronting in Peru. We didn't find anything cheap enough for us to buy, so we just went to the cemetary. It's crazy in there. Everybody and their mothers (sometimes literally, the whole family is buried together) has a mausoleum. They're all really nice and fancy, but there are so many that you get numb to it after a while and they're not that impressive. Some of them look like churches though, and they're so big you have to take stairs to climb to the doors or the statues. After walking around the cemetary for a while and taking lots of pictures, we went to a museum where we found a naked exhibit. Basically a big collection of paintings and photographs of... naked people. We're really immature, so there was a lot of pointing and giggling. Upstairs, we found an amazing photography exhibit with crazy pictures of everything, from violence in Kenya (we saw a picture of a guy with his head blown up... it was very graphic) to breakdancing in South America. After finishing up at that museum, we walked to the Bellas Artes, which was another humongous museum filled with all kinds of art from Mexico, Europe, and Argentina. We saw sculptures by Rodin, paintings by Picasso, and ancient tribal work as well.

Coming out of the Bellas Artes, we got really hungry, so we decided to try to find this meat restaurant we had heard about from a friend we met in Brazil. We walked for a really, really long time (30 blocks, about 10 or 11 kilometers) to La Cabrerra... only to find that it was closed. It opened at 8:30 PM and it was 6 PM. We do not give up easily, so we went to a cafe and sat down. I got this coffee mixed with cognac, chocolate, and canela. It was alright. After 45 minutes of sitting, we left and walked around to look for cheap jeans and scarves. If we don't find them soon, we are going to die in Peru. At 8:30, we got back to the restaurant and got seats outside because the interior is for reservation only. We ordered Argentine country sausage for our appetizer and got ribeye steak for our main course. Pictures of the food, along with all the side sauces and dishes, are on the Facebook album.

After paying (it was 110 pesos for both of us, which is about $30 for two people's steak dinners with appetizers), we got some ice cream at a heladeria and walked back to the metro station. We headed back to the hostel, and that basically concludes our day.

We did a ridiculous amount of walking today. It was a good day though. Looking back at the past few days we've had, it's not so different from our lives back at the states. Honestly, the city and the living conditions are not so different from city life in the States, but we're so happy here. Why is that? I think it's about the attitude. While we're here, we feel like travelers and have the motivation to go out and explore, get lost, try new things, and continue to see every mistake and accident as an adventure. The truth is, our lives back at home can be just as exciting. San Diego is just as amazing as Buenos Aires (if not more so), but I don't get this excited about life at home... hardly anybody really does! While we're out here, we take everything in as an adventure, another story to tell, and I can even lose my camera without stressing. I'm a pretty ignorant person, and there are definitely going to be lots of crazy things that will happen that I won't expect. Despite this, if I can maintain the type of attitude I have now, where I go out everyday waiting for life to surprise me, I think life can be so much more amazing. For those of you sitting at home reading this blog, thinking about how crazy my life seems as I travel the world, take a moment to look at your own lives. Have you explored all the areas in your home city or tried walking 10 kilometers from your house just for the heck of exploring? Probably not. Don't sit by at home thinking I have it lucky, saying that you wish you could travel too. Life is an adventure, so treat it like one.