Buenos Aires day 2

 It wasn't as cold today as I expected. 

I woke after a good nights sleep. Even an extra hour. I must still be recovering from the flight night from Santiago.

Knowing I would be here for a few nights, one of the things I bought yesterday was oatmeal for my breakfasts. The oatmeal was really nice. Much to my surprise it was more like a steel cut oats rather than crushed oats. 

I decided to walk down toward the river front today to see what there was to see.

I past the famous national monument, Obelisco de Buenos Aires on the way.

It was quite a walk, not for you, but for me yes. 

I stopped before getting to the waterfront and had a coffee and 2 mini cresents at a sidewalk cafe. The area is one of the famous tango areas, so the music playing to accompany my coffee break, was tango.

There are several tango performance venues, a few in this area and more in other parts of the city. You can buy tickets with a dinner package, with tango dance lessons prior to dinner and the performance or just for the performance.

I read there are areas where they dance tango on the streets, more often on Sundays, so that will be my Sunday entertainment, hopefully.

After coffee, I continued my walk towards the waterfront. This area reminds me a lot of Manhattan. I past several theatres for plays, opera and movies.

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There are even the newspaper and magazine stands that are so typical of New York City.

I strolled quite  ways along the river. Passing several antique cranes that the city has left in place to add to the character of the area. A couple old steam and and sailing ships, and a couple unique bridges.

Both of these bridges rotated on an axis to create a passage way for boats. There were a lot of pleasure boats on the opposite shore and what appeare be high dollar condos overlooking the boats and river.

The signs said that the 2 boat/museums were going to open at 1 pm for the public. I hung around until after 1, but they never did open. Maybe some other day.

From there I went back across the street and park running along the river to the presidential palace. I found a really nice museum for the palace that had a collection of artifacts from most of the presidencies back to the 1800's. Modern structure built over old remnants of past buildings. It actually worked well.

After the museum, I walked along the side of the palace to the back side, which I found out was actually the front side of the building. Another park was on that side of the palace also.

From there I continued to the Muse