I was feeling a bit homesick today, so I had lunch at McDonald's. The Quarter Pounder Value Meal was 18 pesos, which is $6 American. It tasted just like it does back home. The exchange rate is 3 pesos per dollar...which I guess everyone could figure out from my description of the cost of the Value Meal....hee hee. What confused me is that in Argentina, they use the $ symbol for pesos, so I was always thinking that I was paying in dollars and not in pesos and a few times I was irate at the cost. Then I'd have to remind myself to divide by 3.
After lunch, I went to the Recoleta Market, near the cemetery. There were a lot of crafts for sale there, some of them neat and some of them not so much. I decided not to buy anything, but I did spy some Asturian bagpipers playing, so I snapped a picture.
There is a laundromat around the corner from the hotel, and I had taken my dirty clothes there on Friday. I picked them up today and for 30 pesos, they were all washed and dried and folded for me. Nice.
It was a quiet evening of taking cold medicine and watching television. Most of the shows on TV are American shows with Spanish subtitles. It was funny seeing the bad translations.
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