Buenos Aires is really terrrific

Nice, classy people, great food, beautiful parks and architecture -- these are our impressions of Buenos Aires for the first 2 full days. Of course, it is also very inexpensive for holders of US dollars. We have not checked out the nightlife yet, but that is what this city is famous for. We were at the Eva Peron museum today and then went and checked out her grave, which is at the Recoleta Cemetery, a breathtaking necropolis where all of Argentina´s dead big wigs hang out.

The Peron museum was OK. Located in an old house that Evita had Juan apropriate for a women´s shelter during the 1940´s, it contains many dresses she wore during photo ops of eventful poltical affairs (very stylish) and plenty of memorabilia from the propaganda machine for which the Peron´s were known. But not at all campy, like, say, the Liberace museum in Las Vegas. We did not realize that after her death from ovarian cancer at age 33 her corpse had been kidnapped, was missing for many years and later found buried under a false name in Italy, returning to Argentina 20 years after her death and setting off a riot. Somewhere along the way her body was partially mutilated, which was described in a gruesome recorded monologue to Evita´s corpse by her sister. She has had a more eventful career as a dead person than most people have while they are alive. All this and a hit musical, too! Here Gary is in the Recoleta Cemetery, looking for Eva Peron´s elusive corpse.