We had a great nite last nite and a very long day today. The weather is super mild - warm for us! AND HUMID!!! Our hair and our skin are glowing!
Last nite had empanadas and wine and tarta de manzana with the group and then we went to El Beso. It was a total dive into the deep end of milonga-immersion. We sat the group separately - girls together and boys together. The assistants were there and it was so wonderful to see Jose Luis and Isaac and to meet Analia. Everyone danced and got their feet wet. I think it went well. I was happy for the first nite experience.
Today we got up early - we went to change some money at my favorite exchange place at Corrientes y Florida. We then took separate ways - girls with me and boys with Rommel. Off to SHOE SHOPPING!
The girlies had a 12:00 appointment at Comme Il Faut. Their shoes are currently priced at 380 pesos if you pay cash. (divided by 3.73 - which was our fabulous exchanged rate today) So these shoes are hanging at just above $100. I have to admit there were actually 4 pairs that i liked. This was a change for me! Cynthia, MariaLaura, Taryn and myself - all bought shoes there today. THEN we headed to Flabella where we had much success!!! Lu was super happy with 4 pairs of shoes, Cynthia bought 2 pairs, Olga bought a lovely pair AND MariaLaura bought 2 pairs! These shoes were about 250 pesos. And so i now have a couple of new Flabellas as well! The T design is back and I'm so happy about it! AND such great colors.... such an exciting time for shoe shopping!!! DON'T worry my dear friends I'll post a picture of all of our lovely purchases - just like last year!!!!
The boys - well - they didn't have as much luck it seems. They went to TangoBrujo and Fabio and Neotango. It seems like the girls want to hit Neotango tomorrow - and I need a new pair of sneakers. LOVE SHOE SHOPPING!!!
I couldn't believe how expensive Darco's shoes were - i didn't check but I think one of the girls said they were even more expensive than Comme Il Faut - scarey - remember those were the ones that fell apart the first milonga that one of the last year's ladies went to. So we'll see what else the shoe goddesses bring!
Then the girls stopped off for a rest after all that stressful shopping!!! We had cafe's con crema, cafe's con leche, chocolatiado, and teas!
(i don't know why this blog does not let me put the pictures farther down! - they all clog up at the beginning of the blog... hmm - )
THEN we got back to the Posada and had a lesson with Isaac - Jose Luis came and Isaac spoke about tango etiquette and premilonga issues, etc.. Then we worked on simple things for the milonga floor. It was great! So tonite we will head to Nino Bien and i'm looking forward to that. We leave in 1 hour!!
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