On Monday we drove down from the mountains to Cordoba City, and had one of our aventuras.

We settled into our Air BnB (not the best one any of us has experienced), and went out for a late lunch/early dinner. We found a nice looking Italian place called IT! It wasn’t actually very good, but we had our meal and set out on our first exploration of the city.

We found the main square of the city, not surprisingly called Plaza San Martin, and went inside the cathedral, which was beautiful. Then, outside in the square, we found Michael Jackson!

After watching him for a few moments, I sat down and did this sketch of the cathedral door.

So perhaps you are wondering where the aventura came in. Well …

We went back to our place to relax a bit. We had decided that instead of going out to dinner, as we were tired, we would just eat some snacks and drink some wine at home. Just as we were settling down, Cecilia announced she couldn’t find her car keys.

We’re not using the car here, so it was in the garage of the Air BnB. The three of us hunted high and low, in the car and all over the apartment. As our host had parked the car, we called him to see if he had inadvertently taken them with him. No, he hadn’t.

As we sat pondering (and drinking), Venetia suddenly remembered that Cecilia had dropped something in the restaurant at dinner, and wondered if the keys had fallen out of her purse at the same time. We called the restaurant. They had them!

Cecilia and I went right away and picked them up — and stopped for ice cream on the way back to celebrate! That was an aventura we could have done without!