It’s now Monday, and I have been here for six days. My friend Pauline from Toronto is with me until Friday, so this is vacation time for me. I will get back to work on Monday.

On the way down, we had a 9-hour layover in Panama, so my taxi guy, Luis, took us to see the Panama Canal. Quite fascinating as we watched two huge tankers going through the gigantic locks. Here’s a photo of the two of us there. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize it is the rainy season in Panama and it poured all day! Oh well, as we say in Scotland, holiday rain isn’t so wet!

Summer is almost here in Buenos Aires, although not fully yet. But it’s sunny and in the low twenties, so nice for walking — and we have walked!

On our first day we went up to see Plaza San Martin, and we found a rolled up red carpet and some Canadian and Argentine flags. Apparently we just missed the prime minister’s visit!

My friend Cecilia took us to a party at her friend Mario’s house a couple of nights ago and that was lots of fun. It’s always good to get to meet local people. This is Mario giving us his traditional Argentine asado.

I have some catching up to do and I’ll do that over the next few days. But I am just so-oo-oo happy to be back in my beautiful Buenos Aires!