After Punta Del Este we travelled to Colonia another very pretty town with not much to do but very relaxing, and lots of shopping so as usual mother went crazy, we had a nice steak meal avoiding the group like the plague after that awful chinese woman nearly brought mom to tears a few times. God i just cant stand rude people, i feel like punching her in the face. The next day we travelled to Buenos Aires by hydrofoil across the river and coming into Buenos Aires was like a dream come true, it was the most sophisticated city i had gone to in my 5 months of travelling. Uncle John would say íts just another city´and it was...McDonalds on every corner, banks, shops, cafes, bars galore but that was what was so amazing about it. it was a real city!!! just like any eurpean city i have been missing but with a cool latino twist on everything. We walked around San Telmo and like usual i found a Jamaican cafe to have drinks in and the we went to a famous cafe called Cafe Tortoni and watched an amazing tango show and then met some people afterwards and went back to their hostel to have some good times and ended up seeing an Aussie guy there who i met on the boat going down the Amazon. For the remainder of moms trip she went on a tourist frenzy, we saw and did everything!! just like usual. We got a bus to Evitas grave to a really beautiful cemetary walked around the art and esign museum, walked through the Bond St equivilant of BA and had tea and a g&t in a cafe...its so ice to have an actaul cup of tea for once. Headed to this fancy mall called Galaria Pacifico and went to a photography exhibition, had a lovely steak in the mall and then went to see another show...how much can we do in one day!!?? This one was claled Senore Tango and was a huge Las Vegas style tango show, of 3 hours of differnt dancers, horses galloping through the restaurant, and ending with Dont Cry For Me Argentina...people were in tears, funny that its basically their national anthem now while Andrew LLyod Weber wrote it! Day of more sighseeing was started with a trip to the Malba museum, and the Fine Arts Museum, shopping in Galaria Pacifico and then yet another show was displaying the history of Argentina and the wars between the Panchos and the Spanish settelers. was supurb, we got free Malbec at the start and we headed out to a stadium, it was tipping it down with rain but that just made the show even more realistic. The fights and Indian dances and scenes were all done in the pouring rain, it was so dramatic. They brought out about 30 horses and the tricks they were doing with the horses, like the war reinactments were incredible. We finished the night with drinks in San Telmo and gto to a few cool bars, by the upteenth glass of red wine mom was down and couldnt even finish her last! We took a trip to the Pampas the next day, headed out of BA and i immediatly realised, hang on why did we leave!? It was just a small town in the country with nothing!! We got back really late and then went to a Vietnamese place which was absolutly delicious, had to wait an hour for the table but it was worth it. the next day was even busier with San Telmo sunday market, a city tour and then last minute shopping. It was typical, oh no moms going so quickly run anround as much as possible like chickens with our heads cut off. We headed to the Confeteria Ideal for our last tango show which was fabolous, just what we had been looking for, watching some normal people dance tango instead of the proffesional tango we had been seeing. The next day was terribly sad, I said goodbye to mom in the airport, thinking aww we wont see each other in maybe 6 months time. Was funny though...me waving mom off at the airport in South America, im sure that wont happen again!