recoleta

Great temp today in Recoleta, a really nice part of town. Went to the famous cemetery in this part of the city where many of the early governors and important leaders of the nation are entombed in large and ornate mausoleums. Of course we looked up and took pictures of the place where Eva Peron is laid to rest; as the wife of the President of Argentina, she was revered like none other because of her appeal to the working class. Short life, as she died at 33 of cancer, and is, of course the personality for the Broadway hit, "Evita". Might add that this cemetery, where all are entombed in "houses" as it were, is 14 acres in size.
Also toured a large and very lovely French designed mansion belonging to one of the very wealthy families of days gone by, and now a museum of fine OLD OLD art.
Today was spent in a very casual manner, taking our time to enjoy every thing large or small that we observed. Tomorrow we plan to again meet with our two friends that live here, tour his lab where he makes false eyes, and later have dinner at their home.
If my spelling gets to you---too bad---I only studied engineering.