BA burned while we went to the Philharmonic

Wasn't there something similar said about Rome?

It was an interesting day yesterday.

First thing every morning, I read the BA Herald. It is the local English paper and it gets delivered to the apartment.

The headlines show 7 cars of a Greater Buenos Aires commuter train burned to bits. The reason(s) given are commuters got tired of sitting on a relic of a train that had been stalled on the tracks for 2 hours and they were all very late for work....or it was left wing militants who did it. They trashed the local Castelar train station as well.

Either way, it seemed like.......just another day in BA.

The fact that the other headlines described the possibility that the government would have to eat a nearly $1 B debt for nationalizing the Aerolineas airline and that Black Thursday had hit the stock market. I was afraid to turn the page to see what other problems had happened overnight!

Anyways, it was a quiet day in the office. We met with partners, we produced some oil - no mention of trains being burned up - although we do fly LAN not Aerolineas when flying in country.

We did end the evening by attending a free (with a donation) concert performed by the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional who were accompanied by the Coro Polifonico Nacional. The concert was held at the Facultad de Derecho to enjoy Hayden's 'La Creacion'. Translated: National Symphony Orchestra with the National Choir performing Hayden's 'The Creation' at the Faculty of Law building.



It was a delightful 2 hour concert in a beautiful hall that seated about 800 people. La Creacion is sung in German so we could follow along equally as well as everyone else!

There was one stick swinging incident. The lady sitting in front of Mimi had put her hair up with a chopstick and she kept moving back and forth in her seat. I thought Mimi was going to pull out the chopstick and stick it somewhere else.
The concert was part of a Friday night series put on by the National Symphony Orchestra. I think we will go back....we don't have to take a commuter train to get there.


Then we came home from the concert and found that our freezer is on the blink. Esperanza had spent the day cooking for us. I could be eating 30 empanadas and 2 containers of pollo and rice today.


In the Saturday Herald - the president, Cristina says "Arson is useless." A hell of a response.


B.

Now where did I put those M & M's?