Eden and Josh

Hello, good to see that you´ve found our virtual home for the next year. Eden and I arrived safely in Buenos Aires Friday after a very long flight with a stressful 45 minute layover in Atlanta. Upon arriving in BA we decided to save as many pesos as possible by taking the city bus to our hostel. Unfortunately, we didn´t know how the system worked but a nice local made change for us and showed us how to use the machine. The bus became very crowded over the next two hours but only cost 2.5 pesos (less than $1) while the shuttle bus was around $13 each.

Exhausted and sweaty, we arrived at the hostel we had booked online only to find out that they had given away our room because we didn´t call to confirm, even though we had paid a deposit and the online booking form from lonelyplanet.com didn´t say anything about calling to confirm. So they refunded the deposit and arranged us a bed at another hostel down the street. This was fine, after all it was for only two days, but we got the noisy room by the front desk and then the water didn´t work for the first day. Great start, eh?

So we walked around the city for the first two days, nice place, bought our bus tickets, and then tried with some difficulty to get cash. My PC Financial card has a $100 limit on it for some reason and my BMO wasn´t working at all! On the second day we were able to find a Citibank where Eden was able to get out a good chunk of cash from her BMO, yay!