Friday, December 19, 2008

Hugo's Friends

The rest of the day we spend with his friends from Cordoba, the afternoon sitting around drinking mate. At one point my brain was overloaded with Spanish, so I went to my room, read some email, called my sister, and when I came out, everybody was gone. I was worried that somehow I had missed the dinner call, but Hugo had just walked his friends out to the car to say good-bye. I should point out that this good-bye took about an hour, and we were planning to see them two hours later!

People eat late here. Very late. Again, I love this place. Restaurants don't even open for dinner until 9 o'clock, and it's pretty common to see a restaurant completely full at midnight.

Picked up some vegetarian mid-eastern food, and went over to a beautiful, elegant house where Hugo's friends were staying. Ate on the roof, chatting about this and that, very nice evening. Returned home around 2AM. Given that I spent last night on an airplane (on the very back seat, which didn't recline much), I'm amazed I was able to stay awake this long.

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