Argentina is also celebrating 200 years of independence from Spain
On our return to the hotel one night, the taxi had to pass several police checkpoints. The streets around the hotel were closed to all traffic. This was a little strange. There was a wedding in the hotel's magnificent ballroom but that was nothing unusual. Music was booming from around the corner so loud that you could here it in the bathrooms inside our rooms. My mom phoned us to hurry upstairs as soon as possible to see out their window. Acrobats were shooting down from adjacent buildings into the park that had some sort of light show radiating through the whole area. Something was definitely up.
We hurried out of the hotel, crossed the street and when we got to the center of the park there was something falling from the sky onto the crowd that filled the square. It wasn't confetti, but millions and millions of feathers.
It turned out that we happened upon France's bicentenary party, a gift to celebrate Argentina's 200 years of independence. I think just about everyone was in awe. I've never seen anything like it. What luck that we happened to be here with this spectacle literally on our doorstep.
We got a few funny looks when we returned to the hotel covered in feathers with two pizza boxes for our planned quiet film night in watching Mi Super-Ex Novia on HBO. Cheesy films and cheesy pizza. Simple pleasures that make you feel at home and end a surprising night with my parents
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