DAY THIRTY SEVEN - DANCE MAGIC DANCE!

I'm coming out.. so you better get this party started! Chuck on your blue suede shoes, put on the kettle because we're about to brew up a freaking DANCE STORM... Bellys full of Asado meaty goodness and mouths wet with Fernet, put on the tunes and mix up the beats it is time for these Backyard bandits to get freaky deaky up in here! I heart dancing, thrashing about to everything from South American sexy snake hips Reggaeton to screaming our lungs out in unison to classic rock hits of the 80's!

BARBARA STREISAND

DAY THIRTY SIX - HEY NOW... HEY NOW... DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER!

hot town, summer in the city

back of my neck getting dirty and gritty

being down isn't it a pity

doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

$100ARD Entrance to "After Office" and beers

DAY THIRTY FIVE - SUCKED IN!

DON'T DRINK N' DRIVE

DON'T DRINK N' FRY

AND DEFINITELY 

DO NOT DRINK AND BUY! 

"We will be in Buenos Aires just two days and then we have to go here, there and everywhere..."

No one ever leaves, tourist tours what? What daylight? Its fine to wake every day at 2pm right?

The city that never sleeps sucks in two more victims into its web of show business glittery pizzazz!

DAY THIRTY FOUR - OPEN YOUR EYES & HOLD ON TO YOUR SOCKS!

BEWARE, BE VERY AWARE... 

LOCK UP YOUR WIVES AND KIDS!! 

RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!


WOMEN DRESSED AS MEN! 

ITS AN INVASION OF THE ALMIGHTY FLIGHTLESS BIRD!!!!! 

THE KIWIS HAVE LANDED!

$20 Fernet - Thanks sugar mamas, I will make it up to you in smashing good times!

DAY THIRTY THREE - ON Z ROAD AGAIN

Traveling South American style on a long torturous bus to BsAs. I have another two days work, grand total of 2 hours work! wahoo a smoking $52 pesos! Pity it costs $180 pesos to get there! hahaha. Thank god I have a much, much, much better reason to go there.. but you'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out!

Argentina prides itself on its bus service and today I took the stretch limo of buses - I was mac daddy lying back in my black leather fully reclined seat watching a flat screen TV! I have bused all over this goddamn Continent - from one side of Mexico to the other, a casual 40 hours. But from Guatemala to Nicaragua was the most grueling, we befriended a guy in Guatemala who looked after our bags for us whilst we ate lunch, who then later confessed whilst on the bus that he had just trafficed drugs from Guatemala to Mexico!! Shit your pants! Beady forehead of sweat for me - I freaked out about what may now be in the contents of my bag locked away under the bus! and we had to cross two patrolled boarders before I could find out! 

That horror story aside we then ran out of money to pay taxes at the Nicaragua boarder so they kicked us off the bus, they didn't except visa and there were no cash machines for 10km and with no way to get there! In the end we had to go round every person we saw begging for money and once we had acquired the cold hard cash we got cycled over the boarder me, Zoe and a patrol officer in a trailor/tuktuk contraption designed for one person (poor guy riding the bike in front, was struggling like hell to cycle the three of us over the bridge). Luckily the bus waited for us on the other side and we were back to the life of an orchestra of snoring, prison meals and uncomfortable sleeping positions.

$180 ARD bus

DAY THIRTY TWO - "AH AH AH AH STAYING ALIVE"

Old dirt roads, farm discos and giant over sized cups full of booze (I am talking double hander)! Small town living out in the "wop wops" (no mans land), all for a disco - an over sized dance club, not a venue playing the Bee gees greatest hits.

Argentine driving - "country people die on country roads" - 90's NZ Advertisement

Not only are they drink driving home from these parties in the small towns, they are in the cities too! It happens in NZ also but there is a much greater risk we will get caught, our police are much, much more prevalent than in comparison to Argentina. Half the cars on the roads here are not NZ "road worthy" and on scooters and motorbikes it is not uncommon to see whole families (I am talking mum, dad a kid and a baby) on one bike without helmets speeding down the streets.

But the most wowed in amazement thing I saw on an Argentine highway was when we overtook a truck at the same time as the car in front of us and then we proceeded to over take that car...

No big deal, just a 6 year old kid in giant adult sunglasses on his fathers lap steering the car whilst overtaking at 120km!!!

Safety first.