pictures part 3

These were from Wednesday. After class, me and some other students went to the Casa Rosada again and took pictures. It´s in the Plaza de Mayo, by the way. Afterwards, we went to Calle Florida, and much like American Florida it was overpriced and not too thrilling. But, have some pictures anyways.

Sunrise from the window. I need to go on the roof terrace at some point.

This is Murdock, excited about going out for a walk.

He is 9 years old, very well trained and intelligent, and enjoys having his stomach rubbed.

Awesome architecture near Plaza de Mayo

You see the itty bitty oranges on the tree? No?

These. There are tons of orange trees growing on my block, but we can´t eat any of them because of air pollution. So, the boids get them. xD

The awesome roof of what I believe is the courthouse, I don´t remember

This is a bit unclear, but the point is that the building has a torch lit.

About 2% of the pigeons of Plaza de Mayo. There´s about an acre of space taken up by pigeons at all times.

Some poor porteño knee deep in pigeons. If you put food in your hand, they will fly up and land on you and eat it out of your hand. I have never seen more spoiled pigeons.

La Casa Rosada, which is basically their version of the White House, only it´s pink. The reason for that is that when it was built, there were two major parties, whose colors were red and white. So, to be unbiased, the builders decided to make it "neutral" and pink. The Statue in front commemorates Argentinian independence on the 9th of May, thus the street named Nueve de Mayo.

These were on the gates outside the Casa Rosada. No clue what it means.

close up of the windows and ornamental carvings

This is just an awesome plant that was growing in the Plaza, and a neat picture of la Casa Rosada.

The top part in detail, with awesome statues and arches and pillars and a clock.

There was another fountain on the other side of the entrance too. Also, fyi, I had to stick my camera through the fence to get this picture without bars.

A statue of what I guess was once copper, of a soldier in the War of Independence. Idk, go look it up, it´s been a few days.

Pretty.

A neat church nearby. Not as neat as the one in Recoleta by the cemetary, but still pretty cool.

Another building near P d M with awesome domes.

This was at the base of the statue. I came a few days too late to get the graffitti that was on one of the sides. And sorry I can´t center pictures.

the figure on the statue.

Statue at the entrance of Calle Florida.

This was in Calle Florida, some neat domed buildings.

Calle Florida action shot.

Another cool building on Calle florida

A clock tower near the entrance of Calle Florida

The Subte, aka subway. It´s how Ana and Maddy and I get to school every day, and travel basically everywhere on the green D line. Sorry the picture´s blurry.

Freaking Farmacity. At first I was like "oh, how cute", but this is literally the Walgreens of Argentina. There were THREE Farmacity´s within THREE blocks on Calle Florida. And they´re freaking everywhere. But, at least they´re not so integral as to actually pay for street signs as advertisement, like Claro does. I´ll try to get a picture later.

In a mall on Calle Florida. I felt it was my civic duty to take this picture. Literally two blocks down I saw a storefront version of the store.

There are little stalls everywhere. They usually sell newspapers and magazines. Other vendors have just blankets on the ground with their merchandise on top. Also, note the Starbucks in the background. =/

Okay, this one takes some explaining: Because porteños love dogs, but work long days, some people pay dog walkers to take their dogs out during the day. So there are always guys walking around with five or six dogs on leashes. Occasionally, the walkers will tie the dogs to a pole to go take a bathroom break or whatever. Well, on the way to the university, we saw 15 dogs tied to the pole, all of them just sitting there quietly. It was crazy. Also, tons of dogs have little jackets like the one in the front.