We got maybe 3 hours of sleep. Breakfast was served about 5AM Argentina time (2AM Jackson time). We landed at 6:30AM. It took awhile to clear immigration and customs. Carlos had the hardest time - no one likes his passport that doesn't scan anymore after two laundry washes. The immigration lady said Carlos couldn't leave the country with that passport, but we already had a plan to get a new passport when we arrived.
We were greeted by Carlos's son Ivan, brother Juan Cruz, and friend Gaston who originally invited him to come to the States 13 years ago. We crammed into Ivan's Honda Civic and took an hour drive in the crazy highways of Buenos Aires to Ivan's apartment.
We dropped off our friends and then took our luggage up to Ivan's apartment. I took a shower and a nap while the boys went to look for a plan get a haircut. They came back shortly when they couldn't get an appointment until 4PM. We went for a little walk around the neighborhood to find some sweet bread donuts (fracturas).
We took a drive to a huge mall to apply for Carlos's new passport and DNI (National I.D.) It would take 48-hours for the passport and 3 weeks for the DNI - and the person has to be at the house with a receipt in order to accept the delivery. Exhausted, we went grocery shopping to get a few things and then drove home. We got home just before 4PM and the boys took off to get their haircuts while I took a shower and a nap. Carlos joined me for about 15 minutes until his brother Juan Cruz showed up with his girlfriend and two little boys - Rafael (4) and Leo (7). Carlos's friend Martin came a little later.
The boys wanted to surprise their friend Tuku, so we left Juan's family at the house and took off for Tuku's game center. We passed a bar where Carlos surprised three of his friends who he hadn't seen for 13 years. They made plans to meet later that night. We went to Carlos's friend Tuku's game house that he owns to surprise him. And they decided to have a BBQ there. We played pool - I won against Carlos and Tuku's son. More friends came. They played foosball and Ping-Pong.
I was exhausted and kept looking at the clock above the bar, and didn't realize after hours, that there was no battery in it. I looked at my watch and it was 10:30PM. No wonder I'm so tired!! And we still haven't had dinner yet. Tuku prepared a huge BBQ with our group of friends. We finally left the game house at about 2AM. Martin drives a truck and we crammed in 5 of us into the truck to drive back to Ivan's. They came up to collect their gifts and stayed for nanother 1/2 hour or hour and left. And everyone has to work tomorrow?? Hmmm
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